TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Suicide, psychiatric malpractice, and the bell curve
JO  - The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
A1  - Blinder, Martin
SP  - 319
EP  - 323
VL  - 32
IS  - 3
N2  - The long-recognized risk factors of suicide are so fraught with false positives and negatives as to be nearly valueless in anticipating and preventing suicide or suicide attempts in actual clinical practice. Suicide is no more or less foreseeable in the few patients who attempt self-harm than in the many who make no such attempts. Finally, it is difficult to distinguish retrospectively the quality of the psychiatric care provided to patients who attempt or commit suicide from that received by those who do not. Thus, simple chance may be the only statistically meaningful risk factor for these tragic treatment outcomes.
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SN  - 1093-6793
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -