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Role of Modelling in In-Patient Suicide: a Lack of Supporting Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jiří Modestin  and
Othmar Würmle
Jiří Modestin*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric University Clinic Bern
Othmar Würmle
Affiliation:
Psychiatric University Clinic Bern
*
∗Bolligenstrasse 111, CH-3072 Bern, Switzerland
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Abstract

An analysis of the temporal distribution of 115 in-patient suicides that occurred in two Swiss psychiatric hospitals in the years 1977–86 failed to reveal any statistically significant clustering of suicides. Thus, the modelling effect does not generally play a decisive role in psychiatric in-patient suicide.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 511 - 514
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1989 

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