@article{ref1,
title="'Hidden' suicides amongst deaths certified as undetermined intent, accident by pesticide poisoning and accident by suffocation in Taiwan",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2010",
author="Chang, Shu-Sen and Sterne, Jonathan A. C. and Lu, Tsung-Hsueh and Gunnell, David",
volume="45",
number="2",
pages="143-152",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To identify cause-of-death categories in which suicides might be misclassified in Taiwan. METHODS: We plotted secular trends (1971-2007) in sex- and method-specific rates of deaths classified as suicide, undetermined intent and accident for the Taiwanese population aged 15+ and compared the sex, age and marital status profiles of deaths in these three categories by method of death. RESULTS: The demographic profiles of registered suicides generally resembled those for deaths of undetermined intent and accidents by pesticide poisoning/suffocation but differed from those for accidents from non-pesticide poisoning/drowning/falling/poisoning by non-domestic gas. For the period 1990-2007, suicide rates based on suicides alone (14.8 per 100,000) would increase by 23, 7 and 1%, respectively, when including deaths of undetermined intent, accidental pesticide poisonings and accidental suffocations. CONCLUSIONS: Suicide rates may be underestimated by more than 30% in Taiwan because some suicides are 'hidden' amongst deaths certified as due to other causes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-009-0049-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0049-x"
}