Reduced suicidal presentations to emergency departments during the COVID-19 outbreak in Queensland, Australia (Letter)
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Stapelberg, Nicolas JC
Turner, Kathryn
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To the Editor: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has raised concerns of a subsequent increase in suicides,1 but limited empirical data are available on this topic.2, 3 We analysed numbers of suicidal presentations (including suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempts) to emergency departments (EDs) within the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service before and since the spread of COVID-19 in Queensland, Australia.
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Medical Journal of Australia
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214
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6
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Health sciences
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COVID-19
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Sveticic, J; Stapelberg, NJC; Turner, K, Reduced suicidal presentations to emergency departments during the COVID-19 outbreak in Queensland, Australia, Medical Journal of Australia, 2021, 214 (6), pp. 284-284.e1