Can mental health related hospital visits be relied upon for suicide prevention?

Introduction Even among people with mental disorders, relatively few die of suicide. However, a large proportion of people dying from suicide have seen a physician in the year before death. This raises the question whether focusing on hospital visits for suicide-related outcomes is a viable suicide...

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Main Authors: Kerstina Boctor, Douglas Harder, Liz Letwiniuk, Gene Marcoux, Kristi Langhorst, Roxanne Inch, Candace Lapointe, Lloyd Balbuena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2018-09-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/879