title: [The development of suicide rates in the Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth 1976 - (including) 2000].
abstract: Newer publications about psychiatric in-patient suicide discuss the so-called "increase hypothesis" of suicide of mentally ill in-patients controversially. In our study of in-patient suicides of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth, a state mental hospital for adult psychiatry, the number of suicides and suicide rate over 25 years 1979 - 2000 did not show any increase. During the last 4 - 5 years we observe a trend toward a decrease.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolfersdorf
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Franke
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wurst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006767:Hospitals, District / Q000639:trends; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality*; D013405:Suicide / Q000639:trends*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
vernacular_title: Die Entwicklung der Suizidzahlen und -raten im Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth 1976 - einschliesslich 2000.