Citation

Henderson SW, Gerson R, Phillips B. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2019; 58(6): 561-564.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1016/j.jaac.2019.01.016

PMID

31130207

Abstract

Regulatory agencies are increasingly taking on the important issue of effective risk assessment, risk stratification, and treatment planning for youth with psychiatric illness.1 The Joint Commission mandates a suicide assessment for patients "who exhibit suicidal behavior or who have screened positive for suicidal ideation" followed by risk stratification: after "this assessment, patients should be classified as high, medium or low risk of suicide."2 We anticipate that just as screening for depression and suicidality was initially restricted to emergency departments and inpatient units before being rolled out across all care settings, so risk stratification requirements will roll out to these other settings as well.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Risk Factors; Adolescent; Depression; Risk Assessment; Suicidal Ideation; Suicide Prevention; Emergency Service, Hospital