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Toward zero suicide in health care: Reflections from meeting the Joint Commission mandate for evidence‐based suicide screening
Author(s) -
Walters Anne
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30417
Subject(s) - mandate , commission , suicide rates , suicidal ideation , psychological intervention , psychology , suicide ideation , emergency department , suicide prevention , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , poison control , political science , law
Despite growth in the research and development of interventions that target suicidal behavior, this behavior has reached epidemic proportions of late. Among youth, suicide is the second‐leading cause of death, and visits to the emergency department for suicide attempts or ideation over the years from 2005 to 2015 doubled.