Berger D
Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 1993 Mar;15(2):75-81. doi: 10.1016/0163-8343(93)90100-3.
General hospital psychiatrists were given a pilot questionnaire aimed at characterizing patients evaluated for suicidality. Twenty-seven patients evaluated for suicidality in a 4-month period were studied for demographic, medical, psychiatric, and suicidal variables. Comparison with medical patients who had attempted/completed suicide in prior studies and recommendations to reduce suicidal impulses and improve the database were discussed.