Emergency Department Management of Deliberate Self-harm
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Emergency treatment of deliberate self-harm.
CONTEXT Although concern exists over the quality of emergency mental health services, little is known about the mental health care of adults who are admitted to emergency departments for deliberately harming themselves and then discharged to the community. OBJECTIVE To describe the predictors of emergency department discharge, the emergency mental health assessments, and the follow-up outpati...
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There are approximately 4,000 suicides in England and Wales each year. This is equivalent to one death every two hours. The overall rate of suicide in Britain has fallen slightly over recent years, but the rate among young people increased considerably during the 1980s. Suicide is now the third most common cause of death in people aged 15–30. About half those who die by suicide have a past hist...
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Introduction This paper summarises the research evidence presented in a recent issue of EVective Health Care on deliberate self harm. Deliberate self harm is one of the top five reasons for acute medical admissions in the UK. The term deliberate self harm includes intentional self poisoning or self injury (such as cutting), irrespective of the apparent purpose of the act. Self poisoning is the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Psychiatry
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2168-622X
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0063