After the Suicide Attempt-The Need for Continuity and Quality of Care

The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 387-402

  Mehlum, Lars ^a   Mork, Erlend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Assessment; Attempted suicide; Attitudes towards people who make a suicide attempt; Chain of care; Clinical guidelines; Clinical management; Community health care; Continuity of care; Epidemiology; Follow up; General hospital; Local community; Monitoring; Psychosocial intervention; Quality of care; Self harm; Standards of care

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018051791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118903223.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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