|Articles|January 2, 2009

Psychiatric Times

  • Psychiatric Times Vol 26 No 1
  • Volume 26
  • Issue 1

Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment Through Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Suicide risk assessment is a core competency that all psychiatrists must have.1 A competent suicide assessment identifies modifiable and treatable protective factors that inform patient treatment and safety management.2 Psychiatrists, unlike other medical specialists, do not often experience patient deaths, except by suicide. Patient suicide is an occupational hazard. A clinical axiom holds that there are 2 kinds of psychiatrists: those who have had patients commit suicide-and those who will.

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