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Research Article

Accuracy of official suicide mortality data in Queensland

(Senior Lecturer; Adjunct Senior Lecturer) , (Research Fellow) , (Research Assistant) & (Professor and Director)
Pages 815-822 | Received 20 Jan 2010, Accepted 30 Mar 2010, Published online: 03 Sep 2010

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