Time trends in coroners' use of different verdicts for possible suicides and their impact on officially reported incidence of suicide in England: 1990-2005

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1415-1422

  Gunnell, D ^a   Bennewith, O ^a   Simkin, S ^b   Cooper, J ^c   Klineberg, E ^d   Rodway, C ^c   Sutton, L ^b   Steeg, S ^c   Wells, C ^e   Hawton, K ^b   Kapur, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cause of death; classification methods; suicide; suicide statistics; time trends

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; CORONER; HUMAN; SUICIDE; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM; ARTICLE;

ACCIDENTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84879224567     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291712002401     Document Type: Article

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