PMID: 7546867Sep 1, 1995Paper

Differences between general practices in hospital admission rates for self-inflicted injury and self-poisoning: influence of socioeconomic factors

The British Journal of General Practice : the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
T Smith

Abstract

Self-inflicted injury and self-poisoning are major causes of hospital admission of young adults throughout the United Kingdom, while in Scotland, suicide is the leading cause of death each year in persons aged 15 to 40 years. General practitioners are in a unique position in that they may have contact with the patient before the attempted suicide and later play a supportive role along with other health service and social work professionals. This study set out to examine the differences between 72 general practices in Tayside in the hospital admission rates for self-inflicted injury/poisoning among their patients, and the extent to which these differences were related to the socioeconomic conditions prevailing in the patients' areas of residence and in the areas in which practices were located. The study also aimed to examine the agents of self-inflicted injury/poisoning most commonly used by different age groups. Details of admissions to hospitals in Tayside for self-inflicted injury/poisoning, from 1991 to 1993 inclusive, were obtained from a national, hospital inpatient discharge summary scheme, loaded onto a microcomputer and analysed using standard commercial software. Data from the 1991 census at the postcode sector level ...Continue Reading

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