ArticleThe British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2025
Hidden suicides: focus on England and Wales - comparison with other nations.
Article in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Cardiovascular mortality and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association with antidepressant treatment and co-morbidity.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2026Pooled it
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Abstract
Most deaths around the world are certified, registered and then 'coded' for statistical purposes. Misclassified ('hidden') suicides are deaths assigned an ICD code that is either erroneous or that should never be specified as a cause of death. Public health strategies depend on provision of accurate mortality statistics. Suicides are under-counted, largely through misattribution to natural disease, accident, ill-defined or unknown cause (code R99) or an event of undetermined intent. Proportions of suicides misclassified to each of these codes vary between nations. It is recommended that psychological or verbal autopsies be used when investigating external deaths of uncertain cause or intention, and some R99 deaths. This applies in Britain and wherever unusual patterns of deaths could signal hidden suicides - exemplified by high rates of drug deaths in North America.
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