Mobile Health Technologies for Suicide Prevention: Feature Review and Recommendations for Use in Clinical Care

Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 349-362

  Luxton, David D ^a   June, Jennifer D ^b   Chalker, Samantha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b National Center for Telehealth and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Apps; mHealth; Mobile applications; Self directed violence; Suicide; Technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987666652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21963061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40501-015-0057-2     Document Type: Review

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