Psychiatric discharge against medical advice is a risk factor for suicide but not for other causes of death.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2010-06-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4088/JCP.09l05404bluPMID 20573333
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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