Can real-time surveillance systems of suspected suicide accurately reflect national suicide rates? Age-specific and sex-specific findings from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: an observational study

• Main Authors: Nav Kapur (Author), Louis Appleby (Author), Pauline Turnbull (Author), Su-Gwan Tham (Author), Saied Ibrahim (Author), Cathryn Rodway (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction 'Real-time surveillance' (RTS) systems of suspected suicide showed no overall rise in the early COVID-19 pandemic several months before official statistics reported the same. There has to date been no national examination of suicide recorded by RTS systems by sex or age group...