Healio (11/14, Gramigna) reports, “Patients who present to a hospital for self-harm are at a high risk for suicide in the first year after presentation, and particularly in the first month,” researchers concluded after examining “data for 90,614 presentations to the study hospitals between January 2000 and December 2013 by 49,783 individuals aged 15 years or older.” Mortality was followed up until “Dec. 31, 2015, which allowed for up to 16 years of follow-up.” The findings were published online Nov. 6 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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— “Suicide risk significantly heightened first month, year after self-harm discharge, “Joe Gramigna, Healio , November 14, 2019