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Role of modelling in in-patient suicide: a lack of supporting evidence
1Psychiatric University Clinic, Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract:
An analysis of the temporal distribution of 115 in-patient suicides that occurred in two Swiss psychiatric hospitals in the years 1977-86 failed to reveal any statistically significant clustering of suicides. Thus, the modelling effect does not generally play a decisive role in psychiatric in-patient suicide.