Increase in US Suicide Rates and the Critical Decline in Psychiatric Beds

JAMA. 2016 Dec 27;316(24):2591-2592. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.16989.

Authors

Tarun Bastiampillai¹, Steven S Sharfstein², Stephen Allison³

Affiliations

¹ Mind and Brain, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia2Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
² Shepherd Pratt Health System, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

PMID: 27812693
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.16989

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Hospital Bed Capacity / economics
Hospital Bed Capacity / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitalization
Hospitals, Psychiatric / economics
Hospitals, Psychiatric / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitals, Psychiatric / trends
Humans
Mental Disorders / epidemiology
Mental Health / economics
Suicide / statistics & numerical data*
Suicide / trends
Suicide Prevention
United States / epidemiology