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It is a well-known and accepted fact that the rate of suicide in patients in a psychiatric hospital is far higher than in the general population. Almost all studies show that the majority of those who commit suicide suffer from a psychiatric disorder. Pærregaard (1963), who investigated 1470 suicides in the Copenhagen area, found that 96% of the suicides had a psychiatric diagnosis.
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Retterstøl, N. (1988). Increasing Suicide Rate in Scandinavian Psychiatric Hospitals. In: Möller, HJ., Schmidtke, A., Welz, R. (eds) Current Issues of Suicidology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73358-1_12
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