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Reliability of Violent Death Certification in One Coroner's District

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. M. Barraclough
B. M. Barraclough*
Affiliation:
MRC Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4PQ
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Summary

Classifications given to self-inflicted deaths between 1959 and 1972 by a coroner and his deputy were compared for differences in the use of the suicide, accident, and open verdict definitions. The coroners varied in their use of the open verdict and the suicide verdict for poisoning cases but not for deaths from other causes.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 39 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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