In this paper, Dr. Kathryn Turner et al.
Expert researchers share questions and findings about the effectiveness of the Zero Suicide approach.
What does the research say?
Clinical and academic research into Zero Suicide is developing.
Although published literature on the impact of Zero Suicide is limited, researchers are weighing in on everything from the need for suicide prevention measures in health care settings, how to achieve and measure dramatic reductions in suicide rates, and recommendations from on-going evaluations of the Zero Suicide model.
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"Implementing a systems approach to suicide prevention in a mental health service using the Zero Suicide Framework" by Kathryn Turner, Jerneja Sveticic and Alice Almeida-Crasto
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“Building a System of Perfect Depression Care in Behavioral Health” April 2007 C. Edward Coffey
In 2001, the Division of Behavioral Health Services of the Henry Ford Health System (Detroit) launched an initiative to completely redesign depression care delivery using the Six Aims and the Ten R
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"Suicide Prevention: An Emerging Priority for Health Care" by Michael F. Hogan and Julie Goldstein Grumet
This Health Affairs article discusses suicide as a significant public health problem and makes the case that suicide care must be a core priority in health care.
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"Challenges of Population-based Measurement of Suicide Prevention Activities Across Multiple Health Systems" by Bobbi Jo H. Yarborough, Brian K. Ahmedani, et al.
Evaluation of the Zero Suicide framework is ongoing at six Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) member health systems implementing Zero Suicide.
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Compliance Standards Pave the Way for Reducing Suicide in Health Care Systems
"Compliance Standards Pave the Way for Reducing Suicide in Health Care Systems" is a Journal of Health Care Compliance article about how the Action Alliance catalyzed the Zero Suicide init
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"An Update on Perfect Depression Care" by C. Edward Coffey, M.D., M. Justin Coffey , M.D., and Brian K. Ahmedani , Ph.D.
This letter to the editor in Psychiatric Services updates the 2006 article “Pursuing Perfect Depression Care” with more recent results from the Henry Ford Health System’s Zero Suicide initiative.
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the Zero suicide Model: Applying evidence-Based suicide Prevention Practices to clinical care
Brodsky, Spruch-Feiner and Stanley present a model to guide the implementation of the Zero Suicide framework in this article.