Suicide Methods and Specific Types of Accidental Death and Fatal Poisoning Among Discharged Psychiatric Patients: A National Cohort Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Closer liaison between inpatient services and community care, more effective early treatment for comorbid substance abuse, enhanced psychosocial assessment following self-harm, and tighter medication surveillance could decrease risk of unnatural death post-discharge. PMID: 30289629 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research