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Using Structured Telephone Follow‐up Assessments to Improve Suicide‐Related Adverse Event Detection
Author(s) -
Arias Sarah A.,
Zhang Zi,
Hillerns Carla,
Sullivan Ashley F.,
Boudreaux Edwin D.,
Miller Ivan,
Camargo Carlos A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/sltb.12088
Subject(s) - suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , telephone interview , medical emergency , emergency department , adverse effect , intervention (counseling) , chart , suicide attempt , emergency medicine , psychiatry , statistics , social science , mathematics , pathology , sociology
Adverse event ( AE ) detection and reporting practices were compared during the first phase of the Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow‐up Evaluation ( ED ‐ SAFE ), a suicide intervention study. Data were collected using a combination of chart reviews and structured telephone follow‐up assessments postenrollment. Beyond chart reviews, structured telephone follow‐up assessments identified 45% of the total AE s in our study. Notably, detection of suicide attempts significantly varied by approach with 53 (18%) detected by chart review, 173 (59%) by structured telephone follow‐up assessments, and 69 (23%) marked as duplicates. Findings provide support for utilizing multiple methods for more robust AE detection in suicide research.