Does a copycat effect exist in the emergency department?

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-72

  Kim, Woo Jung ^a   Song, Youn Joo ^b   Namkoong, Kee ^b   Kim, Jae Min ^b   Yoon, Hye Jin ^b   Lee, Eun ^b  

^a Armed Forces Capital Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

attempted suicide; copycat; emergency department; general hospital; imitation; Korea; mass media; suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DROWNING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GUNSHOT INJURY; HANGING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC FIGURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF POISONING; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877815334     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.45.1.e     Document Type: Article

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