Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 118, Issue 1 , Pages 196-200 , November 2009

Methods of suicide in different psychiatric diagnostic groups

  • Ying-Yeh Chen

      Affiliations

    • Taipei City Psychiatric Centre, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Institute of Public Health and Department of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Been Lee

      Affiliations

    • Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and, College of Medicine, #7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 10002, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 2555 0500; fax: +886 2 2550 5065.
    • ,
  • Chia-Ming Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Suicide Prevention Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Lin-Ko, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Shih-Cheng Liao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 25 December 2008 ,Revised 21 May 2009 ,Accepted 21 May 2009.

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PII: S0165-0327(09)00229-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2009.05.020

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 118, Issue 1 , Pages 196-200 , November 2009

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