According to Healio (11/12, Gramigna), emergency department (ED) “patients with suicide attempts or self-harm had a high risk for suicide in the year after discharge,” researchers concluded after analyzing the “data of 55,323 patients with suicide attempts or self-harm, 435,464 patients with suicidal ideation and 9,144,807 patients with other mental health visits via 2008 to 2012 Medicaid data,” then following all patients “for suicide for one year after discharge.” The findings were published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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— “Suicide attempt, self-harm in ED patients pose risks in year after discharge “Joe Gramigna, Healio, November 12, 2021