BURN INJURIES RELATED TO SUICIDE

1 February 1981

journal article
research article
Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol. 1 (3) , 134
https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb135385.x

Abstract

Of 1060 admissions to the burns unit. Royal Brisbane Hospital, over a 12‐year period, there were 30 cases (2.8%) of attempted suicide. Fourteen (47%) of these patients died. The psychosocial features...

Keywords

SUICIDE
ADMISSIONS
BURN
HOSPITAL
DIED
ATTEMPTED
FOURTEEN
MORBIDITY
FLAMMABLE
IGNITION

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