TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - Proxy for suicide attempts was inappropriate in study of changes in antidepressant use after FDA warnings JO - BMJ A1 - Bartlett, Robert O. SP - g5644 EP - g5644 VL - 349 IS - N2 -

Lu and colleagues used poisoning by psychotropic agents (international classification of diseases, 9th revision (ICD-9) code 969) as their “proxy for population level suicide attempts.” They state that non-fatal poisoning by psychotropic drugs has a positive predictive value of 79.7% for suicide attempts. This is based …

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LA - en SN - 0959-535X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5644 ID - ref1 ER -