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. 1989 Oct:155:511-4.
doi: 10.1192/bjp.155.4.511.

Role of modelling in in-patient suicide: a lack of supporting evidence

J Modestin  1 , O Würmle
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Role of modelling in in-patient suicide: a lack of supporting evidence

J Modestin et al. Br J Psychiatry. 1989 Oct.

Abstract

An analysis of the temporal distribution of 115 in-patient suicides that occurred in two Swiss psychiatric hospitals in the years 1977-86 failed to reveal any statistically significant clustering of suicides. Thus, the modelling effect does not generally play a decisive role in psychiatric in-patient suicide.

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