@article{ref1,
title="Suicide-related contacts - Experience in general practice",
journal="Australian family physician",
year="2013",
author="Harrison, Christopher and Bayram, Clare and Britt, Helena",
volume="42",
number="9",
pages="605-605",
abstract="We examined the rate of suicide-related contacts (SRCs) in general practice between April 1998 and March 2013. We defined an SRC as a general practitioner (GP)-patient encounter where suicide ideation or attempt (International Classification of Primary Care 2nd edn, code P77) was recorded as either a problem under management or a patient's reason for encounter (RFE). Between 1998 and 2013, 14 793 GPs participated in BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) and recorded details of 1 479 300 encounters with patients. There were 406 SRC encounters. Most of these were identified through the patient's RFE and not by the GP's label of a problem managed at the encounter. Depression was the most frequent problem managed at encounters where suicidal ideation or attempt was a patient's RFE. This suggests that suicide is often subsumed in the 'depression' label and that we are only identifying a subset of encounters with patients who are dealing with suicidal thoughts.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0300-8495",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}