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Table 2 Brief summary table

From: The reliability of suicide statistics: a systematic review

Conclusions

Total number of studies (n)

Re-evaluation studies

Registry studies

0-10% under-reporting

7

4

3

Fairly reliable suicide statistics

6

3

3

11-30% under-reporting

4

4

0

> 30% under-reporting

10

9

1

Poor suicide statistics

2

1

1

  1. The two combined re-evaluation and registry studies are in this table registered as registry studies.
  2. The two studies were they exchanged data between countries (Ross O. et al. [12] and Atkinson M.W. et al. [10]) are not included in this table.
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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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