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Family Practice Vol. 19, No. 3, 221
© Oxford University Press 2002

Editorial

GPs' role in the prevention of suicide in schizophrenia

Maurizio Pompili, Iginia Mancinelli and Roberto Tatarelli

Dipartimento di Scienze Psichiatriche e Medicina Psicologica, Università ‘La Sapienza’, Via Panama 68/70, 00198 Roma, Italy.

Pompili M, Mancinelli I and Tatarelli R. GPs' role in the prevention of suicide in schizophrenia. Family Practice 2002; 19: 221.

Received 27 July 2001; Accepted 7 January 2002.

Follow-up studies have estimated that 10–13% of individuals with schizophrenia die by suicide, which is the main cause of death among these patients.1 The recognition of risk factors for suicide involves prediction and prevention. Psychiatric research no doubt is a very important source of information in assessing who is at risk. There is evidence that those affected by schizophrenia . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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