Ask suicide-screening questions to everyone in medical settings: The asq'em quality improvement project

Psychosomatics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 239-247

  Horowitz, Lisa M ^a   Snyder, Deborah ^a   Ludi, Erica ^a   Rosenstein, Donald L ^c   Kohn Godbout, Julie ^b   Lee, Laura ^b   Cartledge, Tannia ^b   Farrar, Adrienne ^b   Pao, Maryland ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEOPLASM; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PREVALENCE; SCREENING; SENTINEL EVENT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIAL WORKER; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORKFLOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL WORK; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877839497     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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