Professor Hu You-wei of the Yangming University Institute of Health and Welfare once conducted a survey of emergency ward admissions at a large teaching hospital in Taiwan, and found that fully one half of the patients treated for accidental poisoning or injury were in fact "suicide attempts."
國立陽明大學衛生福利研究所教授胡幼慧，曾針對國內某大型教學醫院急診處一個月的病例做調查，發現被送急診的意外中毒、外傷病人，有一半其實是「意圖自殺」。