In-patient suicide: Selection of people at risk, failure of protection and the possibility of causation
Background Being a current psychiatric in-patient is one of the strongest statistical risk factors for suicide. It is usually assumed that this strong association is not causal but is a result of the combination of the selection of high-risk patients for a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017-05-01
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Series: | BJPsych Open |
Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205647240000209X/type/journal_article |