
@article{ref1,
title="Gender differences in healthcare service utilisation 1 year before suicide: national record linkage study",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2009",
author="Chang, Chia-Ming and Liao, Shih-Cheng and Chiang, Hung-Chi and Chen, Ying-Yeh and Tseng, Kuan-Chiao and Chau, Yeuk-Lun and Chang, Hsiu-Ju and Lee, Ming-Been",
volume="195",
number="5",
pages="459-460",
abstract="All suicides (n=12 497) in Taiwan in 2001-2004 were identified from mortality records retrieved from the National Health Insurance Database. Altogether, 95.1% of females and 84.9% of males had been in contact with healthcare services in the year before their death. Females received significantly more diagnoses of psychiatric disorders (48.0% v. 30.2%) and major depression (17.8% v. 7.4%) than males. Such differences were consistent across different medical settings where contact with hospital-based non-psychiatric physicians was as common as with general practitioners (GPs). However, diagnoses of psychiatric disorders were underdiagnosed in both genders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="10.1192/bjp.bp.108.053728",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.108.053728"
}