Lifetime risk of suicide in affective disorders
Davies, Steffan
Davies, Steffan
Abstract
Comments on the H. M. Inskip et al (see record 1998-00590-008) study on the lifetime risk of suicide for affective disorder, alcoholism, and schizophrenia. While Inskip et al propose that we revise the lifetime risk of suicide in patients with affective disorders from 15% to 6%, the current authors take this argument further, and suggest that this 6% mortality expectation should refer to patients from undefined catchment areas with 2 or more admissions for affective disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Date
1998
Type
Correspondence
Subject
Mood disorders, Suicide
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Davies, S., Naik, P. C. & Lee, A. S. (1998). Lifetime risk of suicide in affective disorders. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 173 (2), pp.185.