Physical vulnerability and fatal self-harm in the elderly.
Although the high rate of suicide in elderly people is conventionally explained as being due to greater intent to die, we have noted elderly Sri Lankans dying after relatively mild poisoning. Using data from cases of yellow oleander poisoning, we investigated the effect of age on outcome in 1697 pat...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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