title: Role of modelling in in-patient suicide: a lack of supporting evidence.
abstract: An analysis of the temporal distribution of 115 in-patient suicides that occurred in two Swiss psychiatric hospitals in the years 1977-86 failed to reveal any statistically significant clustering of suicides. Thus, the modelling effect does not generally play a decisive role in psychiatric in-patient suicide.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric University Clinic, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Modestin
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Würmle
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D013404:Suggestion; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology