Schizophrenia Research
Volume 123, Issue 2 , Pages 263-269 , November 2010

Homicide in discharged patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses: A national case-control study

  • Seena Fazel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1865226447; fax: +44 1865793101.
    • ,
  • Petra Buxrud

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Vladislav Ruchkin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Forensic Psychiatric Clinic Sater, Sater, Sweden
    • ,
  • Martin Grann

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 3 December 2009 ,Revised 29 July 2010 ,Accepted 10 August 2010.

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PII: S0920-9964(10)01465-9

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.08.019

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 123, Issue 2 , Pages 263-269 , November 2010

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