TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Self-harm, traumatic brain injury, and suicide JO - JAMA journal of the American Medical Association A1 - Fleminger, Simon A1 - Fleminger, Jessica SP - 2484 EP - 2485 VL - 320 IS - 23 N2 -
To the Editor Dr Madsen and colleagues1 found an increased rate of suicide among individuals who had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) compared with persons without TBI, after controlling for preinjury factors including deliberate self-harm. However, such factors may nevertheless have an important role in the etiology of suicide after TBI, given that the rates of deliberate self-harm in individuals who went on to experience a TBI were 1.65 times higher than in those without a TBI (Table 1 in the article) ...
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LA - en SN - 0098-7484 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.17558 ID - ref1 ER -