Development of best practice guidelines for suicide-related crisis response and aftercare in the emergency department or other acute settings: a Delphi expert consensus study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For those who have experienced suicidal behaviour, discharge from the hospital emergency department and other acute settings represents a period of heightened vulnerability for future suicide risk. Current guidelines for suicide response in acute settings often fail to fully address the barriers faced by emergency department personnel who have contact with a person who presents for suicidal behaviour, and have been developed largely without the input of consumers or service users. The aim of the study was to use the Delphi expert consensus method to develop guidelines for staff responding to suicidal presentations in acute settings.

Methods

Systematic searches of academic and grey literature and interviews with key informants were conducted in order to develop a 5

SUBMITTER: Hill NTM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6323675 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature