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Clinical Psychiatry

Suicide

Letter to the Editor December 15, 2003

Reply to Effectiveness of Close Watch Precautions in Suicidal Patients

Katie A. Busch, MD; Jan Fawcett, MD; Douglas G. Jacobs, MD

J Clin Psychiatry 2003;64(12):1520-1520

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Letter to the Editor

Effectiveness of Close Watch Precautions in Suicidal Patients

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