Increasing suicide rates among middle-age persons and interventions to manage patients with psychiatric complaints: In conjunction with the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-13

  Chakravarthy, Bharath ^a   Frumin, Erica ^a   Lotfipour, Shahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOMUTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907679255     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.12.19513     Document Type: Note

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