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Assessment of suicide risk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Louis Appleby*
Affiliation:
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, School of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, University of Manchester, Withington Hospital, Manchester M20 8LR
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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