Medscape (9/11, Brooks, Subscription Publication) reports, “Approximately 49 to 65 inpatients commit suicide each year in US hospitals,” researchers concluded after performing “a cross-sectional analysis of data from 27 states reporting to the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) for 2014-2015 and from hospitals reporting to the Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event (SE) database from 2010 to 2017.” The study authors estimated that “between 48.5 and 64.9 hospital inpatient suicides occur annually in the United States, with 31.0 to 51.7 of these events occurring during psychiatric hospitalization.” The findings were published online Sept. 3 in “the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety to coincide with National Suicide Prevention Week, September 9 to 15.”
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