Suicidality and suicide prevention among war veterans with traumatic brain injury

Suicide in the Military

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 161-182

  Simpson, Grahame ^a,b   Tate, Robyn ^a,b  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

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