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. 2021 Jul;8(7):552-553.
doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00117-6. Epub 2021 Apr 13.

Remaining vigilant about COVID-19 and suicide

Stella Botchway  1 , Seena Fazel  2
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Remaining vigilant about COVID-19 and suicide

Stella Botchway et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2021 Jul.
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  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.
    Pirkis J, John A, Shin S, DelPozo-Banos M, Arya V, Analuisa-Aguilar P, Appleby L, Arensman E, Bantjes J, Baran A, Bertolote JM, Borges G, Brečić P, Caine E, Castelpietra G, Chang SS, Colchester D, Crompton D, Curkovic M, Deisenhammer EA, Du C, Dwyer J, Erlangsen A, Faust JS, Fortune S, Garrett A, George D, Gerstner R, Gilissen R, Gould M, Hawton K, Kanter J, Kapur N, Khan M, Kirtley OJ, Knipe D, Kolves K, Leske S, Marahatta K, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Neznanov N, Niederkrotenthaler T, Nielsen E, Nordentoft M, Oberlerchner H, O'Connor RC, Pearson M, Phillips MR, Platt S, Plener PL, Psota G, Qin P, Radeloff D, Rados C, Reif A, Reif-Leonhard C, Rozanov V, Schlang C, Schneider B, Semenova N, Sinyor M, Townsend E, Ueda M, Vijayakumar L, Webb RT, Weerasinghe M, Zalsman G, Gunnell D, Spittal MJ. Pirkis J, et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2021 Jul;8(7):579-588. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00091-2. Epub 2021 Apr 13. Lancet Psychiatry. 2021. PMID: 33862016 Free PMC article.

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