Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 177-183 , July 2010

Epidemiological trends of suicide and attempted suicide by poisoning in the US: 2000–2008

  • Henry A. Spiller

      Affiliations

    • Kentucky Regional Poison Control Center, Louisville, KY, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 502 629 5326; fax: +1 502 629 7277.
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  • Savitri Appana

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40205, USA
    • ,
  • Guy N. Brock

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40205, USA

Received 11 March 2010 ,Revised 7 April 2010 ,Accepted 20 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.04.005

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 177-183 , July 2010

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