scholarly journals Suicide Risk Screening in Healthcare Settings: Identifying Males and Females at Risk

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. King ◽  
Adam Horwitz ◽  
Ewa Czyz ◽  
Rebecca Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening

scholarly journals Making the Case for Suicide Risk Screening in Outpatient Podiatry Patients: An Opportunity for Injury Prevention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam K. Spector ◽  
Annabelle M Mournet ◽  
Deborah J Snyder ◽  
Emmanuella Eastman ◽  
Maryland Pao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Positive Zero ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Care Clinic ◽  
Clinic Staff ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening

Background: Despite prevention efforts, suicide rates continue to rise, prompting the need for novel evidence-based approaches to suicide prevention. Patients presenting with foot and ankle disorders in a podiatric medical and surgical practice may represent a population at risk for suicide, given risk factors of chronic pain and debilitating injury. Screening has the potential to identify people at risk that may otherwise go unrecognized. This quality improvement project (QIP) aimed to determine the feasibility of implementing suicide risk screening in an outpatient podiatry clinic and ambulatory surgical center. Methods: A suicide risk screening QIP was implemented in an outpatient podiatry clinic and ambulatory surgical center in collaboration with a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) suicide prevention research team. Following training for all staff, patients ages 18 years and older were screened for suicide risk with the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) as standard of care. Clinic staff were surveyed about their opinions of screening. Results: Ninety-four percent of patients (442/470) agreed to be screened for suicide risk and nine patients (2%; 9/442) screened non-acute positive; zero for acute risk. The majority of clinic staff reported that they found screening acceptable, felt comfortable working with patients who have suicidal thoughts, and thought screening for suicide risk was clinically useful. Conclusions: Suicide risk screening was successfully implemented in an outpatient podiatry clinic. Screening with the ASQ provided valuable information that would not have been ascertained otherwise, positively impacting clinical decision-making and leading to improved overall care for podiatry patients.

scholarly journals Improving Suicide Risk Screening and Detection in the Emergency Department

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin D. Boudreaux ◽  
Carlos A. Camargo ◽  
Sarah A. Arias ◽  
Ashley F. Sullivan ◽  
Michael H. Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening

Barriers to Universal Suicide Risk Screening for Youth in the Emergency Department

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana E. M. Seag ◽  
Paige E. Cervantes ◽  
Argelinda Baroni ◽  
Ruth Gerson ◽  
Katrina Knapp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening

Balance Beams and Suicide-Risk Screening

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Craig J. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Screening Tools ◽  
Warning Sign ◽  
Suicidal Behaviors ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Illness Model ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening

This chapter examines how the mental illness model of suicide has led us to place more faith than may be warranted in concepts such as suicide “warning signs” and suicide-risk screening tools. These concepts are notoriously unreliable indicators of emerging suicidal behaviors because they do not sufficiently reflect the inherently dynamic and ever-changing nature of suicide risk. Any given warning sign for suicide will be wrong much, much more often than it will be right. Even when multiple warning signs are experienced or expressed by an individual, this problem persists. One factor limiting the accuracy of suicide-risk screening is that thoughts about death and suicide fluctuate over time. Thus, we should move away from assuming that we must know who will and who will not attempt suicide to prevent these behaviors from occurring.

Health Care Usage and Suicide Risk Screening within 1 Year of Suicide Death

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 871-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy R. Stuck ◽  
Michael P. Wilson ◽  
Christen E. Chalmers ◽  
Jonathan Lucas ◽  
Andrew Sarkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Suicide Death ◽  
Health Care Usage ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening

Development and Implementation of a Universal Suicide Risk Screening Program in a Safety-Net Hospital System

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Roaten ◽  
Celeste Johnson ◽  
Russell Genzel ◽  
Fuad Khan ◽  
Carol S. North
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Screening Program ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Risk Screening ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Safety Net Hospital ◽  
Suicide Risk Screening
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