Contact of parasuicide patients with the accident and emergency department.

A review of the literature on the prevention of suicide through interventions in accident and emergency departments.

In order to inform the development of a specialist 'suicide prevention nurse' to work in an Accident and Emergency department (A&E), a review of literature in the area was undertaken. Priority was given to papers describing well specified interventions with a carefully defined client group. Only eight such studies were identified and, although they do have clear implications for practice, they ...

The cost of hospital care in the year before and after parasuicide.

This study, based in Ireland in the Limerick centre of the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study of Parasuicide, tests the hypothesis that the uptake of hospital services increases significantly following an act of parasuicide. To investigate this, the costs of hospital attendance in the year before and in the year after an act of parasuicide are measured and compared. The sample is comprised of the first...

Description of cases of parasuicides reported at University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka. Zambia: preliminary findings

Parasuicide has become a public health problem of importance. A sample size of 207 case records of patients was estimated considering a prevalence of 16+5% obtained in the project area, z=1.96 and margin of error of 5%. The case records were conveniently sampled. A total of 141 (68.1%) out of 207 records were reviewed of which 53.2% were for males. About a third of the cases were in the age gro...

The Prognostic Value of Admission Glasgow Coma Scale and AVPU in Acute Drug Poisoning Patients

An ecologic study of parasuicide in Edmonton and Calgary.

OBJECTIVE From 1986 to 1999, the suicide rate in the Edmonton Regional Health Authority (RHA) was greater than that in the Calgary RHA (mean rate ratio 1.4). We conducted a study to determine whether a similar relation holds for parasuicide, and if so, whether the pattern can be explained at the ecologic level by sociodemographic factors. METHODS The Edmonton and Calgary RHAs provided data on...