Undetermined Intent

The classification of a violent death or injury as undetermined, rather than labeling it as suicide, which would have a vastly different effect on the grieving survivors
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The National Statistics definition of suicide includes deaths given an underlying cause of intentional selfharm or an injury/poisoning of undetermined intent.
Forties the danger spot as suicides soar in men of all ages; Charities are calling for the Welsh Government to invest in mental health services and make them a priority as male suicide rates are now at their highest since 1981
Deaths from gunshot injuries of undetermined intent are currently coded as accidents, thus under-representing homicides in Statistics South Africa data, and misrepresenting the real burden from homicide deaths.
Medical certification of death in SA [8]
Self-harm definition 2: as above, as well as any codes for poisoning, undetermined intent (ICD-10: Y10-19) or contact with sharp object, undetermined intent (ICD-10: Y28).
Emergency department presentations for self-harm among Ontario Youth
Of those, 86% were ruled as unintentional by the medical examiners' office, 11% were ruled suicides, 3% were described as of undetermined intent, and less than 1% were ruled homicides or pending (numbers do not add to 100% because of rounding).
Prescription drug overdoses up in Florida
9% concordance) and independently assigned undetermined intent (40.
Reliability of ICD-10 external cause of death codes in the National Coroners Information System
3 percent for violent deaths of undetermined intent and 0.
Violence-related injury takes heavy U.S. toll
It reveals the rate of deaths from suicide and injuries of undetermined intent in men over 15 in the North-east is 20.
Suicide rate highest in the North-east
The North-East has the highest age standardised death rates of people killing themselves and injuries of undetermined intent in both males and females aged 15 and over.
North is mental health hotspot
This stands in comparison with 12,548 people dying in 2003 "through nonsuicide gun violence, including homicides, accidents and cases of undetermined intent.
Guns: lifesaver, or public health menace?
Thus, without further investigation, suspicious motor vehicle collision deaths may be better conceptualized as falling along a continuum of risky behaviours with varying or undetermined intent.
Sex differences in suicides among children and youth: the potential impact of misclassification
Around 45 per cent were as a result of self-poisoning and 16 per cent were of undetermined intent.
Death toll doubles in a decade; DRUGS
0001), while intentional self-harm, assaults and cases of undetermined intent were largely assigned as UCODs.
Correlates of undefined cause of injury coded mortality data in Australia
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