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Self-harm in England: a tale of three cities. Multicentre study of self-harm.

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Multicentre monitoring of self-harm in England has demonstrated similar overall patterns ofSelf- Harm in Oxford, Manchester and Leeds, with some differences reflecting local suicide rates.
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Background Self-harm is a major healthcare problem in the United Kingdom, but monitoring of hospital presentations has largely been done separately in single centres Multicentre monitoring of self-harm has been established as a result of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England

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Scales for predicting risk following self-harm: an observational study in 32 hospitals in England.

TL;DR: There is little consensus over the best instruments for risk assessment following self-harm, and it is likely that the indiscriminant use of risk scales in clinical services will continue.
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Six year follow-up of a clinical sample of self-harm patients

TL;DR: Overall levels of mortality, morbidity, and harmful use of alcohol are high, whilst quality of life is reported as low, which has significant implications for the long-term management of self-harm patients.
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Identifying deliberate self-harm in emergency department data.

TL;DR: Cut/Pierce injuries and poisonings coded UD appeared to represent DSH more often than did UD presentations involving other injuries, and including presentations coded UD among those coded DSH increased the 12-month cumulative incidence of DSH by up to 60%.
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Mortality in children and adolescents following presentation to hospital after non-fatal self-harm in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm: a prospective observational cohort study

TL;DR: The 12-month incidence of suicide in this cohort was more than 30 times higher than the expected rate in the general population of individuals aged 10-18 years in England and switching of method between self-harm and suicide was common, especially from self-poisoning to hanging or asphyxiation.
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Toward a clinical model of suicidal behavior in psychiatric patients.

TL;DR: A stress-diathesis model is proposed in which the risk for suicidal acts is determined not merely by a psychiatric illness but also by a diathesis, reflected in tendencies to experience more suicidal ideation and to be more impulsive and, therefore, more likely to act on suicidal feelings.
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Fatal and non-fatal repetition of self-harm. Systematic review.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of published follow-up data from observational and experimental studies was conducted to estimate rates of fatal and non-fatal repetition of self-harm.
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Suicide following deliberate self-harm: long-term follow-up of patients who presented to a general hospital

TL;DR: Following DSH there is a significant and persistent risk of suicide, which varies markedly between genders and age groups, and reduction in the risk of Suicide must be a key element in national suicide prevention strategies.
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