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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Main Authors: Matthew Michael Large, Daniel Thomas Chung, Michael Davidson, Mark Weiser, Christopher James Ryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017-05-01
Series:BJPsych Open
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205647240000209X/type/journal_article