Clinical and epidemiological aspects of suicide in patients with schizophrenia;Aspectos clínico-epidemiológicos del suicidio consumado en pacientes con esquizofrenia

Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 333-345

  Gómez Durán, Esperanza L ^a,b,c   Martin Fumadó, Carles ^d   Hurtado Ruíz, Gemma ^a  

^a L'Hospitalet de Llobregat ^*  (Spain)

^b Servei de Responsabilitat Professional   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d Institut de Medicina Legal de Catalunya   (Spain)

Author keywords

Causes; Mortality; Risk factors; Schizophrenia; Suicide

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 84871868728     PISSN: 11399287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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