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    Guidelines for integrated suicide-related crisis and follow-up care in Emergency Departments and other acute settings

    The Guidelines for Integrated Suicide-Related Crisis and Follow-Up Care in Emergency Departments and Other

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    Intimate Partner Violence and Suicide: Intersections in Context and Practice

    This webinar provides an overview of the intersection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide in the United States. The presentation addresses considerations for screening and assessing for suicide risk in individuals who have experienced IPV.

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    Suicide Prevention and Health Care Accreditation: A Panel Discussion with the Joint Commission

    Health care systems play an integral role in suicide prevention. Data show that 83% of people who die by suicide have seen a health care provider within a year preceding their death. 1 In 2012, the U.S.

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    Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices

    The Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices contains tools, information, and resources to implement state-of-the-art suicide prevention practices and overcome barriers to treating suicidal patients in the primary care setting.

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    Screening for Suicide in the Emergency Department: A Critical Opportunity

    In this short video, Dr. Ed Boudreaux, a professor with the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine, highlights the importance of developing clear protocols to guide front-line emergency room staff in suicide screening and detection.

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    Zero Suicide in the Emergency Department: The Chickasaw Nation Experience

    In this short video, Dr.

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    Those admitted to emergency departments may be among the most high-risk for suicide.
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    Seattle Children's Hospital Zero Suicide Initiative Pathways

    The Seattle Children's Hospital created a Zero Suicide Initiative Pathway for use with children and youth presenting for care to allow for standardized processes for suicide risk screening and assessment for triage to resources across the organization.  Included are versions for use in the

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    Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk: Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care

    To help close these gaps that put individuals at increased risk for suicide after a psychiatric hospitalization, the Action Alliance (Care Transitions Advisory Group) developed 

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    Joint Commission R3 Report Issue 18: National Patient Safety Goal for Suicide Prevention

    The Joint Commission released a revision of National Patient Safety Goal 15.01.01 in May 2019 with seven new and revised elements of performance applicable to all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and behavioral health care organizations effective July 1, 2019. 

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Education Development Center, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention are able to make this web site available thanks to support from Universal Health Services (UHS), the Zero Suicide Institute at EDC, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (grant 1 U79 SM0559945).

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