Assessment and management of the risk of suicide

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Sue McLaughlin ◽  
Gwen Bonner ◽  
Caroline Attard
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Inpatient Setting ◽  
Service Users

Assessment and management of suicide risk within the inpatient setting can be particularly challenging for staff where a range of factors impact the decision-making process. Using an authentic, compassionate approach towards understanding risks with service users is important to support meaningful collaborative risk assessment, and involving carers wherever possible is recommended. Reflective peer review can be a helpful way to consider decision-making and enhance clinical skills, as well as providing valuable support to staff. Post-incident support can be equally important for staff and service users and the culture in which risk assessment is undertaken needs to be one of encouragement and positive learning across the team and the organization.

A Big Thank You to our Reviewers in the Past Year!

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Past

Good reviewers are essential to the success of any journal and peer review is a major pillar of science. We are grateful to those mentioned below to have dedicated their time and expertise to help our authors improve and refine their manuscripts and support the Editor(s) in the decision making process in the past year.

A Big Thank You to our Reviewers in the Past Year!

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Past

Good reviewers are essential to the success of any journal and peer review is a major pillar of science. We are grateful to those mentioned below to have dedicated their time and expertise to help our authors improve and refine their manuscripts and support the Editors in the decision making process in the past year.The following received out Top Reviewer of the Year award:We wish all our readers, reviewers, authors and friends a happy and prosperous 2018!Matthias Schott, MD, PhD Stefan R. Bornstein, MD, PhD Constantine A. Stratakis, MD, D(med)Sci Editors-in-Chief

Patient information and involvement

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Health It ◽  
Cancer Services ◽  
Development And Management

User involvement in cancer services operates at two levels: providing information and involving patients and carers in decision-making about their own care, and involving patients and carers in decisions about the development and management of cancer services. Information can be provided to patients verbally, in written material, and through patient-held records, and they can also have access to information via the Internet. Most people want to take an active role in making decisions about their care and treatment; however, this varies from person to person. Being fully informed is important to more people than being fully involved in the decision-making process itself. Issues of consent and competence are very important when involving patients, and nurses need to take account of these and also the condition of the patient, when involving them in the decision-making process. Involving cancer service users in evaluating and managing health care has the benefits of improving services and public understanding, and improving health. It can take the form of providing information and seeking feedback on services, consulting on developments to services, and participation in planning, managing, or evaluating services. These can be achieved through questionnaires and surveys, focus groups, membership of committees, or employing service users as consultants to services. For user involvement to be effective, it should be meaningful, the language should be inclusive, and minority perspectives should be represented.

scholarly journals Open peer review at four STEM journals: an observational overview

F1000Research ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Ford
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Stem Disciplines

Open peer review, peer review where authors' and reviewers' identities are disclosed to one another, is a growing trend in scholarly publishing. Through observation of four journals in STEM disciplines,PLoS One,Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics,PeerJ, andF1000Research, an observational overview is conducted. The overview relies on defined characteristics of open peer review. Results show that despite differing open peer review implementations, each journal retains editorial involvement in scholarly publishing. Further, the analysis shows that only one of these implementations is fully transparent in its peer review and decision making process. Finally, the overview contends that journals should clearly outline peer review and editorial processes in order to allow for open peer review to be better understood and adopted by authors, reviewers, editors, and readers of science communications.

scholarly journals THE INTEGRATED RATING MECHANISM APPLICATION TO THE DECISION OF THE PROJECT SELECTION PROBLEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kataeva ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Project Assessment ◽  
Functional Process

The article describes the model of a complex organizational management system where the several approaches are simultaneously implementing: functional, process and design. The relevance of applying integrated assessment mechanisms to management tasks in organizational systems, in particular, to solving the problems of coordinated decision-making, is substantiated. The reasons for the inconsistency of interests in the decision-making process are described. Examples of management tasks in organizational systems are given. The example of solving the problem of selecting projects into a portfolio using the integrated assessment mechanism is considered in detail. A set of evaluation criteria is given and convolution matrices are described. The development plan for the project assessment mechanism including risk assessment, taking into account the rank of expert is proposed.

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