Resource Tag: RECORD KEEPING

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A records analysis was done of patients at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rehoboth, Namibia who exhibited the risk factors &/or were diagnosed & treated for suicide or attempted suicide in 2001. A total of 45 individuals were identified. 51% of these were admitted, 7% were referred out, & 42% were treated as outpatients. Suicide & […]

This paper offers readers an assessment protocol that provides guideines that can be used by practitioners in a variety of clinical settings. The author also provides several recommendations that will help clinicians strengthen the quality of their suicide risk assessments &, he states, offer a higher degree of protection from litigation. (10 refs.)

This toolkit is designed to assist Primary Care Trusts in England in establishing a system for collecting relevant information on suicides to inform local, regional, & national suicide prevention strategies.

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A system for monitoring all deliberate self-harm presentations has been in place in the general hospital in Oxford for 30 years. Based on the authors’ experience, this paper describes procedures for monitoring, including case definition & identification, linkage of persons & episodes in order to investigate repetition of deliberate self-harm & other outcomes (including deaths), […]

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This article includes a discussion between J Mann and R M A Hirschfeld.

Please see SIEC #2004-0132 for the full version of this document.

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This report describes the analysis of violent deaths from 7 states that participated in the National Violent Death Reporting System in 2003, plus 6 additional states that participated in 2004. Suicide circumstance information indicated mental health disorders & intimate partner problems had important roles. The age-adjusted suicide rate for the 7 states collecting data in […]

Please see SIEC #2006-0457 for the complete document.