title: Nosocomial suicide.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To consider the possibility that adverse aspects of psychiatric hospitalisation may precipitate suicide contributing significantly to the increased rate of suicide among inpatients, given little has been published about this.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is likely that psychiatric hospitalisation itself contributes to some inpatient suicides. This has significant implications for the delivery of inpatient psychiatric care.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Services, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, and; School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Large
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stein-Parbury
authors.forename: Martyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patfield
mesh_terms: D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: hospitalisation; inpatient; nosocomial; psychiatric hospital; suicide