Depression care effort brings dramatic drop in large HMO population's suicide rate

Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

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Details on suicide among US physicians: data from the National Violent Death Reporting System

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"Zero suicide" - a model for reducing suicide in United States behavioral healthcare

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Suicide Prevention: State of the Art Review

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Outpatient Care of Young People After Emergency Treatment of Deliberate Self-Harm

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Issues in research on aging and suicide

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A comparison of multi-component systems approaches to suicide prevention

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Psychiatric in-patient care and suicide in England, 1997 to 2008: a longitudinal study

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Improving Care for Depression and Suicide Risk in Adolescents: Innovative Strategies for Bringing Treatments to Community Settings

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Efficacy of the Zero Suicide framework in reducing recurrent suicide attempts: cross-sectional and time-to-recurrent-event analyses

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Suicide Thoughts and Attempts and Psychiatric Treatment Utilization: Informing Prevention Strategies

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Combining scales to assess suicide risk

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National pathways for suicide prevention and health services research

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Population-based outreach versus care as usual to prevent suicide attempt: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Is It Rational to Pursue Zero Suicides Among Patients in Health Care?

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The Relationship Between Suicidal Behaviors and Zero Suicide Organizational Best Practices in Outpatient Mental Health Clinics

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Master Clinician Review: Saving Holden Caulfield: Suicide Prevention in Children and Adolescents

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Prioritizing suicide prevention guideline recommendations in specialist mental healthcare: a Delphi study

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Zero suicide implementation-effectiveness trial study protocol in outpatient behavioral health using the A-I-M suicide prevention model

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An implementation evaluation of “Zero Suicide” using normalization process theory to support high-quality care for patients at risk of suicide

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Is the outpatient mental health workforce ready to save lives? Suicide prevention training, knowledge, self‐efficacy, and clinical practices prior to the implementation of a statewide suicide prevention initiative

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An Update on Perfect Depression Care

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Caring for Suicidal Patients

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Management of suicidal behaviour: Is the world upside down?

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Suicide Prevention Interventions and Referral/Follow-Up Services: A Systematic Review

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Suicide risk after psychiatric hospital discharge.

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Implementing Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies for Greatest Impact

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Zero Suicide Model Implementation and Suicide Attempt Rates in Outpatient Mental Health Care

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Challenges of Population-based Measurement of Suicide Prevention Activities Across Multiple Health Systems

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Interaction between prospective risk factors in the prediction of suicide risk.

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Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention

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Counselors’ Role in Decreasing Suicide in Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas in the United States

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Predicting Suicidal Behavior: Are We Really that Far Along? Comment on “Discovery and Validation of Blood Biomarkers for Suicidality”

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Suicide in Later Life

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Escala Abreviada de Personalidad y Acontecimientos Vitales para la detección de los intentos de suicidio

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Making the Case for Primary Care and Mandated Suicide Prevention Education

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An Australian Example of Translating Psychological Research into Practice and Policy: Where We are and Where We Need to Go

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Short Personality and Life Event scale for detection of suicide attempters

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Firearm suicide mortality among emergency department patients with physical health problems

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Application of the Zero Suicide Model in Residency Training

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Code 100: a study on suicidal behavior in public places.

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Zero Suicide International: An opportunity across Asia

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Pharmacological and Somatic Treatment Effects on Suicide in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Investing in Suicide Prevention: Zero Suicide in a Pediatric System of Care

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Study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomized controlled trial to evaluate implementation of a suicide risk identification model among behavioral health patients in three large health systems

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Identification, Assessment, and Management of Suicide Risk in Emergency Departments: Significant Updates in Research and Practice

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Vision Zero In Suicide Prevention And Suicide Preventive Methods

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In response to “Details on suicide among US physicians: data from the National Violent Death Reporting System”

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Toward a Biosignature of Suicide Reattempt

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Scales for the evaluation of suicide risk

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Are New Standards for Assessing and Managing Suicidal Patients Needed in Canada?

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Zero Suicide: The Movement to Safer Suicide Care in Health Care

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Suicide Prevention in Health Care

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A review of patients admitted and managed for parasuicide at Jubilee Hospital, Gauteng Province

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Clinical outcome of patients with suicide attempts: 1098 patients

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Brent, D. A. (2019) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2019.05.008

Vision Zero in Suicide Prevention and Suicide Preventive Methods

Wasserman, D., Tadić, I., & Bec, C. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76505-7_43

Zero Suicide: The Movement to Safer Suicide Care in Health Care

Grumet, J. G., Hogan, M. F., Covington, D. W., & Coffey, C. E. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42003-1_38

Suicide in a Health Maintenance Organization Population

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Tempering Optimism Concerning the Recent Decline in US Suicide Deaths

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Improvements in the recognition and treatment of depression and decreasing suicide rates.

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A case of depression with attempted suicide treated at a general hospital.

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