Repeated suicide attempts and suicide among individuals with a first emergency department contact for attempted suicide: A prospective, nationwide, danish register-based study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 832-840

  Fedyszyn, Izabela E ^a,c   Erlangsen, Annette ^a,b   Hjorthoj, Carsten ^a   Madsen, Trine ^a   Nordentoft, Merete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Mental Health Centre Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HANGING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRANGULATION; SUFFOCATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; AGE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84976444804     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.15m09793     Document Type: Article

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