Hospital and Community Correlates of Recommended Emergency Department Mental Health Care for Patients Presenting With Self-Harm.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Emergency departments (EDs) are well positioned to deliver suicide prevention services. This study examined hospital and community correlates of recommended practices.

Methods

This study examined results from a national survey of ED nursing directors (N=513) focusing on hospital- and community-level variation in the routine provision of four recommended practices: suicide risk screening, access to means assessment, safety planning, and follow-up referrals.

Results

Few significant differences existed between hospitals that routinely provided these practices and hospitals that did not. Routine scheduling of follow-up appointments was associated with presence of formal contractual relationships with outpatient mental health facilities (p=0.005). Routine provisi

SUBMITTER: Cullen SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8570966 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature