This article reviews 145 patients over the age of 65 years seen at a district general hospital after deliberate self-harm between 1973 and 1985. There was no significant change in the numbers seen per year, and they comprised 5.4% of all the hospital's self-harm cases. The male to female ratio was 1
Deliberate self-harm: the St Andrew’s experience
✍ Scribed by Daemon Dewing; Syed A. Mashadi; Fortune Iwuagwu
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-0130
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