The Epidemiological Use of Hospital Data for Suicide Surveillance in Belgium

Aims: Investigating the E codes related to suicide and self-inflicted injuries through the prevalence, the patient characteristics, the methods and means employed and the characteristics of the hospital stays; and compare them with the others E codes group. Study Design: Retrospective hospital-based analytical study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was based on the 2010 data of 13 Belgian hospitals. Methodology: Based on 16406 cases of patients with a least an E code (ICD-9-CM); Pearson’s chi-squaretests, simple logistic regressions and Wilcoxon rank sum tests were used to assess the v... Mehr ...