Emergency Treatment 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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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of General Psychiatry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-990X
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.108