Citation

Salib E. Med. Sci. Law 1996; 36(3): 237-241.

Affiliation

Warrington Community Health Care (NHS) Trust, Winwick Hospital, Warrington.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8918092

Abstract

This study is an attempt to understand the effect of various factors that are likely to have influenced North Cheshire's Coroners during a five-year period in their decision to return a 'suicide' or an 'open' verdict. Based on the logistic model, the main factors that appeared to have influenced a Coroners decision are: intimation of intent, method of death and alcohol problem.

Language: en