Open AccessA psychometric cut-point to separate emergently suicidal depressed patients from stable depressed outpatients
Author(s) -
W. Vaughn McCall,
Nicolas Batson,
Megan Webster,
Indu Joshi,
Todd Derreberry,
Adam McDonough,
Suzan R. Farris
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.117150
Subject(s) - suicidal ideation , logistic regression , emergency department , medicine , receiver operating characteristic , depression (economics) , psychiatry , poison control , injury prevention , emergency medicine , economics , macroeconomics
The design of safe clinical trials targeting suicidal ideation requires operational definitions of what degree of suicidal ideation is too excessive to allow safe participation.