Table 3.

Suicide rates in the week postdischarge from psychiatric settings

	N studies	Suicides	Patient years	Pooled estimate	Lower limit	Upper limit
One week	24	1928	60 880	2950	1740	5000
Subgroup of studies according to data source
Extracted directly	16	1429	12 605	5090	2930	8840
Personally communicated	8	499	48 257	1400	740	2680
Subgroups of studies according to study quality
Higher quality	5	246	26 370	3950	3910	3990
Lower quality	19	1682	34 492	1400	1380	1410