Browsing by Author "Sayer, Geoffrey"

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    Suicide attempts in NSW: associated mortality and morbidity.
    (CSIRO, 1996) Sayer, Geoffrey; Stewart, Gavin; Chipps, Jennifer
    This article is the fifth in a series on suicide in New South Wales by the Mental Health Epidemiology Group. Its aim is to provide a quantitative account of suicide attempts and the associated mortality and morbidity in NSW during 1992 (the most recent year for which data were available) as context for consideration of the overall problem of suicide in NSW.
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    Suicide mortality in NSW: an introduction to clinical audits.
    (CSIRO, 1996) Stewart, Gavin; Chipps, Jennifer; Sayer, Geoffrey
    This article is an introduction to the use of clinical audit to identify possible preventive approaches to suicide. We examine the ethical issues, techniques and feasibility of this method for collecting information on suicides. A more detailed report on the practicalities of clinical audit is being prepared3. For more than three decades psychological autopsies and modified psychological autopsies have been employed worldwide to study risk factors for suicide. The term psychological autopsy most commonly refers to interviews with family and friends of the victim to reconstruct the circumstances of the suicide'. Sometimes the term is limited to the determination of the mental state of the individual, and at other times the modified psychological autopsy or clinical audit includes all the investigations relevant to the suicide, including the review of medical records and the physical autopsy4. Clinical audit in this article encompasses both the psychological autopsy and the physical autopsy, and any other relevant investigations. We prefer to use the term clinical audit to stress that interviewing bereaved people requires clinical skills and because attention should be given to the potential role clinical services may play in prevention.
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    Suicide mortality in NSW: clients of mental health services.
    (CSIRO, 1995) Chipps, Jennifer; Stewart, Gavin; Sayer, Geoffrey
    This article examines suicide by clients of mental health services in NSW. Since April1992 the Mental Health Branch of the NSW Health Department has operated an incident monitoring system which requires all public mental health services in NSW to report unexpected deaths, including suicides, of current or former clients. Part I of this article describes the information collected through this monitoring system, and Part II estimates mental health service clients' risk of suicide, compared with that of the NSW population.
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    Suicide mortality in NSW: geographic variation.
    (CSIRO, 1995) Stewart, Gavin; Chipps, Jennifer; Sayer, Geoffrey
    This is the first of a series of articles on the epidemiology of suicide in NSW. We examine pooled suicide mortality data for Area and District Health Services from the time of the introduction of the ICD9-CM cause of death coding in 1979 to the most current complete year for which death data are available (1992).