Health service and medicine utilisation before suicide: optimising suicide prevention using population-based linkage of routinely collected data

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Suicide in Australia is the leading cause of death for young people. Optimising suicide prevention lies in delivering the right interventions to the right people. Yet currently we lack crucial information - we do not know which individuals are likely to receive some of our most promising suicide interventions and therefore where to deliver them in the future. To gain this knowledge we will examine the medicines dispensed and healthcare utilised prior to previous suicides in Australia.