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. 2021 Nov 26;118(47):814-815.
doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0365.

Suicides During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 Compared to the Years 2011-2019 in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) and Emilia-Romagna (Italy)

Daniel Wollschläger, Irene Schmidtmann, Maria Blettner, Verena Ernst, Sebastian Fückel, Nicola Caranci, Emilio Gianicolo

Suicides During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 Compared to the Years 2011-2019 in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) and Emilia-Romagna (Italy)

Daniel Wollschläger et al. Dtsch Arztebl Int. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Age standardized suicide rates per 100 000 inhabitants per year for women and men in Rhineland–Palatinate and Emilia–Romagna in 2020 with 95% confidence intervals calculated for the Segi–Doll reference population, together with the corresponding average rates for the period 2011–2019
Figure 2
Figure 2
Predicted suicides per 100 000 person-years in the age group 70+ for women and men in Rhineland–Palatinate (RLP) and Emilia–Romagna (ER) for 2020 with 50% and 95% uncertainty intervals, together with the observed suicides
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