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Table 3 Summary quality sum score

From: The reliability of suicide statistics: a systematic review

Conclusions

Quality sum score ≤ 9

Quality sum score 10-14

Quality sum score ≥ 15

0-10% under-reporting

1

5

1

Fairly reliable suicide statistics

0

5

1

11-30% under-reporting

0

3

1

> 30% under-reporting

4

6

0

Poor suicide statistics

1

1

0

  1. 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.