TY - JOUR PY - 1975// TI - Suicide in the psychiatric hospital JO - American journal of psychiatry A1 - Schwartz, D. A. A1 - Flinn, D. E. A1 - Slawson, P. F. SP - 150 EP - 153 VL - 132 IS - 2 N2 - The authors note that although the psychiatric hospitals is often used as a means of preventing the suicide of disturbed patients, some hospitalized patients succeed in committing suicide; such as an event is distressing for hospital staffs as well as for patients and families. However, the authors believe that the occasional occurrence of in-hospital suicide is inevitable. They present data on the frequency and characteristics of suicides among hospitalized psychiatric patients in Los Angeles County during the period from 1967 to 1972.?23AUTHOR
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