 Suicide
"Suicide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The act of killing oneself.
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D013405
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.126.980.875 I01.880.735.856
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Suicide".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Suicide" by people in this website by year, and whether "Suicide" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2007 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2009 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2011 | 8 | 1 | 9 | | 2012 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2013 | 7 | 8 | 15 | | 2014 | 9 | 3 | 12 | | 2015 | 15 | 5 | 20 | | 2016 | 18 | 2 | 20 | | 2017 | 25 | 10 | 35 | | 2018 | 20 | 6 | 26 | | 2019 | 19 | 7 | 26 | | 2020 | 24 | 6 | 30 | | 2021 | 23 | 3 | 26 | | 2022 | 25 | 0 | 25 | | 2023 | 44 | 5 | 49 | | 2024 | 19 | 14 | 33 | | 2025 | 19 | 6 | 25 | | 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Suicide" by people in Profiles.
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Monteith LL, Polzer ER, Holliday R, Aase DM, Simonetti JA. Lethal means safety for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Veterans: Insights from key informants. PLoS One. 2026; 21(1):e0340962.
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Penzenik ME, Schneider AL, Hoffmire CA, Sells JR, Stearns-Yoder KA, Brenner LA. Rural community members' experiences and perceptions regarding lethal means safety in the context of suicide and accidental death rates. J Rural Health. 2026 Jan; 42(1):e70103.
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Cafferty R, Leonard J, Gillette R, Bagg M, Haasz M, O'Leary ST, Ambroggio L. Association of Suicide Risk Factors and Subsequent Pediatric Emergency Department Mental Health Visits. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Dec 01; 41(12):e210-e217.
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Kafka JM, Lyons VH, Cheung A, Graham LM, AbiNader MA, Adhia A, Mustafah A, Rivara FP. Preventing Intimate Partner Murder-Suicide: A Case-Control Study of Suicidal Males in Abusive Relationships. Am J Prev Med. 2025 Dec; 69(6):108076.
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Sells JR, Stearns-Yoder KA, Penzenik ME, Bahraini NH, Sullan MJ, Cruz S, Monteith LL, Brenner LA. The "tyranny of distance": community-based veteran suicide prevention in Guam. Front Public Health. 2025; 13:1469973.
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Poudel DR, Sharma AK, Chapagain RH, Chapagai M, Lowry NJ, Sigdel MR, Bista KP, Pathak R, Kunwar A, Patterson J, Carter T, Horowitz LM. Validity of the Nepali Ask Suicide Screening Questions tool for medical inpatients. BMC Psychiatry. 2025 Jul 22; 25(1):719.
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Horowitz LM, Bridge JA, Pao M. Editorial: Preteens and Suicide Risk: It Doesn't Hurt to Ask. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2026 Jan; 65(1):28-30.
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Kittel JA, Schneider AL, Kolva E, Monteith LL, Hoffmire CA. Suicide rates and methods among veteran cancer survivors within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), 2010-2020. J Affect Disord. 2025 Dec 01; 390:119813.
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Miller M, Wertz J, Swanson SA, Simonetti JA, Zhang Y, Azrael DR. Firearm Storage and Firearm Suicide. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 07 01; 8(7):e2519266.
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Christensen M, Culp S, Campo JV, Bridge JA, Horowitz L. Evaluation of the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) tool, Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), pain, and opioid screening to detect suicide risk among rural adult primary care patients. J Rural Health. 2025 Jun; 41(3):e70064.
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