Primary care consultation patterns before suicide: a nationally representative case-control study.

Danah Alothman Sarah Lewis Andrew W Fogarty Timothy R Card Edward G Tyrrell

Published in: The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2024)

Escalating or more than monthly consultations are associated with increased suicide risk regardless of patients' sociodemographic characteristics and regardless of the presence (or absence) of known psychiatric illnesses.

Keyphrases

primary care
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
mental health
prognostic factors