Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 369-375 , October 2005

National Study of US Emergency Department Visits for Attempted Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury, 1997-2001

Received 3 November 2004 ,Revised 15 March 2005 ,Accepted 14 April 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPHAuthor Contributions: AD, EDB, NW, AJP, and CAC conceived the study, planned the data analytic strategy, interpreted the results, and drafted/edited the manuscript. AJP and CAC conducted the data analyses. CAC takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: Dr. Camargo was supported, in part, by an EMF Center of Excellence Award (Dallas, TX) and Dr. Boudreaux by grant DA-16698 from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD).

PII: S0196-0644(05)00525-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.04.018

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 369-375 , October 2005

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