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Spearman's rank correlation coefficients and p-values for directly age-standardised suicide and antidepressant poisoning rates and prescription rates, England 1993 to 2002 |
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| Cause of death |
Prescriptions |
rs |
p |
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| All suicides |
All antidepressants |
-0.73 |
0.016 |
| Non-drug poisoning suicide |
All antidepressants |
-0.89 |
0.005 |
| Antidepressant-related poisoning deaths |
All antidepressants |
-0.45 |
0.187 |
| Tricyclic antidepressant -related poisoning deaths |
Tricyclic antidepressants |
-0.64 |
0.05 |
| Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor and other antidepressant-related poisoning deaths |
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and other antidepressants |
0.99 |
<0.001 |
| Antidepressant only poisoning deaths* |
All antidepressants |
-0.53 |
0.12 |
| Tricylclic antidepressant only poisoning deaths* |
Tricyclic antidepressants |
-0.71 |
0.022 |
| Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor and other antidepressant only poisoning deaths* |
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and other antidepressants |
0.94 |
<0.001 |
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* Where no other drugs were mentioned on the death certificate | |||
Morgan et al. BMC Public Health 2004 4:63 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-4-63 |
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