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A Sisyphean task: assessing suicide ideation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2022

Yoram Barak*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand

Abstract

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Copyright
© International Psychogeriatric Association 2022

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