Six health care systems in California, Colorado, Michigan, Oregon, and Washington participated in this study. They had a large sample of patients (7,820,524). The health care systems were implementing Zero Suicide. The authors found that there was a high level of variation in the proportions of patients receiving suicide screening and risk assessment and lethal means counseling across the systems.
Citation: Boggs, J. M., Richards, J., Simon, G., Aguirre-Miyamoto, E. M., Barton, L. J., Beck, A., Beidas, R. S., Bruschke, C., Buckingham, E. T., Buttlaire, S., Clarke, G., Coleman, K., Flores, J. P., Frank, C., Penfold, R. B., Richardson, L., Ryan, J. M., Schoenbaum, M., Sterling, S., … Ahmedani, B. (2024). Suicide Screening, Risk Assessment, and Lethal Means Counseling During Zero Suicide Implementation. Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.), appips20230211. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230211
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