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

在澳大利亚，自杀是年轻人死亡的主要原因。优化自杀预防在于向正确的人提供正确的干预措施。然而，目前我们缺乏关键的信息——我们不知道哪些人可能会接受我们最有希望的自杀干预，因此也不知道将来在哪里提供这些干预。为了获得这方面的知识，我们将检查在澳大利亚以前的自杀事件之前所使用的药物和医疗保健。

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.