The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Hospital care and repetition following self-harm: multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury.
Quantitative research about self-harm largely deals with self-poisoning, despite the high incidence of self-injury. ⋯ Hospital services offer less to people who have cut themselves, although they are far more likely to repeat, than to those who have self-poisoned. Attendance at hospital should result in psychosocial assessment of needs regardless of method of self-harm.