title: The identification of clustering in parasuicide.
abstract: A straightforward test for detecting clustering in patterns of parasuicide in individual patients is described and applied to data from the Edinburgh Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre.
authors.affiliation: General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Smeeton
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012606:Scotland; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D013029:Space-Time Clustering; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000453:epidemiology*