A comparison of suicides in psychiatric in-patients, after discharge and in not recently hospitalized individuals

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue , 2016, Pages 100-105

  Deisenhammer, Eberhard A ^a   Behrndt, Elisa Marie ^a,b   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Haring, Christian ^c   Miller, Carl ^d  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Center for Health Services Research in Medicine   (Germany)

^c State Hospital Hall in Tirol ^*  (Austria)

^d Kufstein County Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; AGED; AUSTRIA; HOSPITALIZATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84971249889     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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