TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Psychiatric beds and increased suicide rates in England JO - Lancet psychiatry A1 - Bastiampillai, Tarun A1 - Allison, Stephen A1 - Gupta, Arun A1 - Chan, Sherry Kit Wa SP - 604 EP - 604 VL - 3 IS - 7 N2 -
In The Lancet Psychiatry, Nav Kapur and colleagues1 analysed mental health service changes in England between 1997 and 2012, to investigate correlations with suicide rates. Importantly, the investigators identified that some organisational changes had a positive effect on reducing suicide rates, including the implementation of the NICE guidelines for depression. However, the study did not include two of the most important organisational changes during this time: the substantial reduction in psychiatry bed numbers and significantly reduced admission rates for affective disorders in the UK...
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LA - en SN - 2215-0374 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30099-2 ID - ref1 ER -