Burden of illness and suicide in elderly people
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Burden of illness and suicide in elderly people: case-control study.
OBJECTIVES To study the association between physical illness and suicide in elderly people. DESIGN Case-control with illness determined from interviews with relatives of people who committed suicide and with control participants and from medical records. SETTING Gothenburg and two surrounding counties (210 703 people aged 65 years and over). PARTICIPANTS Consecutive records of people who ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7361.441/a