Suicide or undetermined intent? A register-based study of signs of misclassification

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Björkenstam, Charlotte ^a,b   Johansson, Lars Age ^a   Nordström, Peter ^a   Thiblin, Ingemar ^c   Fugelstad, Anna ^a   Hallqvist, Johan ^a,d   Ljung, Rickard ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Manner of death; Mortality classification; Psychotropics; Register study; Suicide; Sweden; Undetermined intent; Unintentional poisonings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVORCED PERSON; DRUG ABUSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARRIED PERSON; MORTALITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; SWEDEN; WIDOWED PERSON;

EID: 84899958937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-12-11     Document Type: Article

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