Mental health practitioners may be called to an inquest after the unexpected death of a
patient. Our review aimed to synthesise publicly available guidance written for practitioners …

Suicide is the culmination of the interaction of a number of factors with the critical component
being distress. The contribution of mental illness as a vulnerability factor in an individual …

Hospitalisation is designed to protect patients from harm; however, patients have been
reported to take their own lives during hospital admissions. While a significant healthcare …

This article explores the over-representation of Indigenous people in suicide statistics
internationally as indicative of the broader impacts of colonialism. The purpose of this …

Background Suicide by road vehicle collision in Australia is under-explored with mixed
findings. We aimed to address this research gap by examining time trends, different types of …

Understanding how and why someone dies unexpectedly is key to bereaved family
members. The coronial process in England investigates instances where the cause of death …

After over 100 years of constant dissatisfaction with the accuracy of suicide data, this paper
suggests that the problem may actually lie with the category of suicide itself. In almost all …

While suicide is recognised as one of the leading causes of death in Australia, it is often
presumed that fatal road crashes are primarily accidental in nature. However, international …

Australia has a significantly higher suicide rate than England. Rather than accepting that this
'statistical fact'is a direct reflection of some positivist truth, this article begins with the premise …

Sudden, violent and otherwise unexplained deaths are investigated in most western
jurisdictions through a Coronial or medico-legal process. A crucial element of such an …