Frequency of health care utilization in the year prior to completed suicide: A Danish nationwide matched comparative study.

BACKGROUND:Suicide accounts for more than 800,000 annual deaths worldwide. Some of these deaths may be preventable by timely identification of individuals at risk and effective intervention. General practitioners (GPs) may have the potential to play an important role in this process. AIM:The present...

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Main Authors: Henrik Schou Pedersen, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Bodil Hammer Bech, Annette Erlangsen, Mogens Vestergaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214605