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Suicide rate following attendance at an accident and emergency department with deliberate self harm
J Ryan1, A Rushdy, C A Perez-Avila
1Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine
|March 1, 1996
Abstract
Objective:
To determine the risk of suicide in patients attending an accident and emergency (A&E) department with deliberate self harm.
Methods:
Information was obtained on suicides and open verdicts from the coroner's office and cross checked with computerised records in the A&E department.
Results:
There was a trend to suicide among younger socially isolated males and older females.
Conclusions:
There is a significant association between suicide and a previous attendance at A&E with deliberate self harm. Appropriate assessment of these patients is an efficient way of managing self harm.