Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers

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Abstract

The US Army experienced a sharp increase in soldier suicides beginning in 2004. Administrative data reveal that among those at highest risk are soldiers in the 12 months after inpatient treatment of a psychiatric disorder.

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Title: JAMA Psychiatry

Abbreviated Title: JAMA Psychiatry

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Print): 2168-622X

Publication date Created: January 01 2015

Publication date (Print): January 01 2015

Volume: 72

Issue: 1

Page: 49

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[1 ]Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

[2 ]Department of Behavioral Medicine, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky

[3 ]US Army Office of the Surgeon General, Falls Church, Virginia

[4 ]Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York

[5 ]Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

[6 ]National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

[7 ]US Army Public Health Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

[8 ]Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

[9 ]Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts10Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

[10 ]Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

[11 ]Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

[12 ]Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla14Deapartment of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla15Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California

[13 ]King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.1754

PubMed ID: 25390793

SO-VID: 92e3f823-a712-4bf6-83dd-01635e4f5314

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