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Re: Hjorthøj et al.’s article: Risk of suicide according to level of psychiatric treatment: a nationwide nested case–control study, Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2014

verfasst von: Erika Braithwaite, Geneviève Gariépy, Miriam Wiens-Kinkaid, Martine Elbejjani, Rebecca Fuhrer

Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Ausgabe 1/2015

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In their recent paper, Hjorthøj and colleagues [1] investigated the association between suicide and various levels of psychiatric treatment, with the intent to explore whether level of psychiatric treatment is an indicator of missed opportunities for suicide prevention. Using data from nationwide Danish registers, the authors reported a gradient for increased risk of suicide with each increasing level of psychiatric treatment. We commend the authors for addressing this timely topic. Suicide prevention is an important public health concern that has gained increasing media attention. This study is among the few that have sought to answer this question using high quality national level data [2‐6]. …

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Titel: Re: Hjorthøj et al.’s article: Risk of suicide according to level of psychiatric treatment: a nationwide nested case–control study, Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2014
verfasst von: Erika Braithwaite
Geneviève Gariépy
Miriam Wiens-Kinkaid
Martine Elbejjani
Rebecca Fuhrer
Publikationsdatum: 01.01.2015
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0940-y

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