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[Attempted suicide and previous contact with health system]
A Madoz-Gúrpide1, E Baca-García, C Díaz-Sastre
1Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, 28034, España.
Introduction:
Suicide behavior is an important health problem. Several works found have reported that the majority of completed suicides visited to the general practitioner in previous days.
Method:
219 suicide attempts attended in a General Hospital were asked about their previous contact with health system.
Results:
The third part of the patients have visited the general practitioner in the previous month. 60% of the patients with personal antecedents of psychiatric diseases have visited to mental services in the previous month.
Conclusions:
It is necessary to find risk suicide markers that allow identifying these patients in primary attention. The increment of the consultation periodicity is proposed as efficient risk suicide marker.