Beyond suicide:Action needed to improve self-injury mortality accounting

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 231-232

  Rockett, Ian R H ^a   Kapusta, Nestor D ^b   Coben, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AUTOMUTILATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DRUG INTOXICATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMICIDE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRODUCTIVITY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMANS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 84896780954     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3738     Document Type: Note

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