Hospital presenting self-harm and risk of fatal and non-fatal repetition: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-fatal self-harm is one of the most frequent reasons for emergency hospital admission and the strongest risk factor for subsequent suicide. Repeat self-harm and suicide are key clinical outcomes of the hospital management of self-harm. We have undertaken a comprehensive review of the international literature on the incidence of fatal and non-fatal repeat self-harm and investigated factors influencing variation in these estimates as well as changes in the incidence of repeat self-harm and suicide over the last 30 years.

Methods and findings

Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, article reference lists and personal paper collections of the authors were searched for studies describing rates of fatal and non-fatal self-harm amongst people who presented to heal

SUBMITTER: Carroll R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3938547 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature