Citation

Sudak HS, Sterin GJ, Houser HB. Am. J. Psychiatry 1975; 132(11): 1212-1214.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1166901

Abstract

The authors assessed the frequency of suicide subsequent to calls to a poison information center in a follow-up study. The 8 confirmed suicides out of 2,177 calls yielded a rate of 66.8 per 100,000 population--significantly higher than that for the general population. In addition, 15 possible or probable suicides were identified. The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.

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