Citation

Mournet AM, Horowitz LM. Evid. Based Pract. Child Adolesc. Ment. Health. 2021; 6(3): 307-315.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/23794925.2021.1888665

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

With rising youth suicide rates in the US and around the world, medical settings have been leveraged as partners in prevention. Suicide risk screening programs can detect youth who may otherwise pass through the health care setting with unrecognized suicide risk. Outpatient primary care clinics and inpatient medical units are well positioned to intervene to address this critical public health crisis. Through the use of the Plan-Do-Study-Act quality improvement framework, suicide risk screening can be efficiently and effectively implemented in medical settings to identify suicide risk among youth, without overburdening busy healthcare systems. © 2021 Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; youth suicide; epidemiological data; psychiatric diagnosis; health care planning; screening test; adolescent disease; Article; evidence based practice; patient assessment; total quality management; clinical pathway; scale up; disease risk assessment; quality improvement; Suicide risk screening