@article{ref1,
title="The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study, 2. Case-control study of 59 in-patient suicides",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2001",
author="King, E. A. and Baldwin, D. S. and Sinclair, J. M. and Campbell, M. J.",
volume="178",
number="",
pages="537-542",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Psychiatric patients have an elevated risk of suicide while in hospital. AIMS: To compare social, clinical and health-care delivery factors in in-patient and out-patient suicides and their controls. METHOD: Retrospective case-control study of 59 in-patients and 106 controls, matched for age, gender, diagnosis and admission date. Odds ratios were calculated using conditional multiple logistic regression. RESULTS: There were seven independent increased-risk factors: history of deliberate self-harm, admission under the Mental Health Act, involvement of the police in admission, depressive symptoms, violence towards property, going absent without leave and a significant care professional being on leave. When compared with out-patient suicides, in-patients were more often female and male in-patients had a psychotic illness. Unlike the out-patient suicides, social factors were not found to be significant. CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of in-patient and out-patient suicides differ. Identified risk factors have relatively low sensitivity and specificity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="10.1192/bjp.178.6.537",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.178.6.537"
}