Contacts with health professionals before suicide: Missed opportunities for prevention?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1117-1123

  De Leo, Diego ^a   Draper, Brian M ^b,c   Snowdon, John ^d   Kõlves, Kairi ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE MANAGER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL WORKER; SUDDEN DEATH; SUICIDE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SUICIDE;

EID: 84884355592     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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