Increased suicide risk in cancer patients in Tyrol/Austria

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 483-487

  Oberaigner, Willi ^a,b   Sperner Unterweger, Barbara ^c   Fiegl, Michael ^d   Geiger Gritsch, Sabine ^a,b   Haring, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Clinical Epidemiology of the Tyrolean State Hospitals Ltd Cancer Registry of Tyrol ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer registry; Population based study; Suicide; Suicide risk

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUICIDE; SUICIDE RISK; TIME OF DEATH; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK; SUICIDE;

EID: 84906085365     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2014.05.017     Document Type: Article

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