Article
Suicide rate 22 years after parasuicide: cohort study
14 Nov 2002
Abstract excerpt
The rate of suicide for people who have had an episode of parasuicide is 100 times higher in the year following the episode than that of the general population. 1 Providing a high standard of care to patients who deliberately harm themselves could help to reduce this rate. 2 Long term follow up studies show that the increased rate of suicide persists. 3 However, the long term risk of suicide in patients in the...
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