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Outpatient Suicide: A Descriptive Study of 172 Outpatient Suicides Reported by New York State Mental Health Programs in 1982

Date:

July 1988

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Description

The Commission report on its study of all 172 outpatient suicides reported for the year 1982 concludes that an increasing rate of reported suicides among psychiatric outpatients in the past several years suggests a need for more extensive, appropriate and effective community services.