TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Attempted suicide and previous contact with health system
JO  - Actas espanolas de psiquiatria
A1  - Madoz-Gúrpide, A.
A1  - Baca-Garcia, E.
A1  - Díaz-Sastre, C.
A1  - Ceverino, A.
A1  - Guerro, D.
A1  - Sáiz, J.
SP  - 329
EP  - 333
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
N2  - INTRODUCTION: Suicide behavior is an important health problem. Several works found have reported that the majority of completed suicides visited to the general practitioner in previous days. METHOD: 219 suicide attempts attended in a General Hospital were asked about their previous contact with health system. RESULTS: The third part of the patients have visited the general practitioner in the previous month. 60% of the patients with personal antecedents of psychiatric diseases have visited to mental services in the previous month. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to find risk suicide markers that allow identifying these patients in primary attention. The increment of the consultation periodicity is proposed as efficient risk suicide marker.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 1139-9287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -