Suicide in the Medical Setting

摘要

Although theseevents do not commonly occur, one such event can have a devastating effect on families and institutions alike. For such low-frequency, high-impact events, collecting comprehensive clinical details about inpatient suicides is essential to create a better, safer environment of care. Such collaborative data collection across institutions has the potential to improve precision in identifying patients at risk for suicide as well as to develop more comprehensive profiles of risk factors for suicide. Improved clinical profiles of patients who commit suicide in general hospital settings can then be used in training, assessment, environmental risk management, and other institutional patient safety efforts.