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.
Expert researchers share questions and findings about the effectiveness of the Zero Suicide approach.
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.
Brodsky, Spruch-Feiner and Stanley present a model to guide the implementation of the Zero Suicide framework in this article.
This most recent article on Henry Ford Health System’s Perfect Depression Care has four key takeaways:
In 2006, an article in this journal described our quality improvement initiative, the Perfect Depression Care program, which received the American Psychiatric Association’s Gold Significant Achieve
Hampton , T. (2010). Depression care effort brings dramatic drop in large HMO population’s suicide rate. JAMA, 303(19), 1903–1905.
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