Suicide risk assessment tools, predictive validity findings and utility today: Time for a revamp?

Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 483-495

  Roos, Leslie ^a,b   Sareen, Jitender ^b   Bolton, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMUTILATION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL INDICATOR; DEATH/SUICIDE IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TASK; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHEDULE OF NONADAPTIVE AND ADAPTIVE PERSONALITY SCALE; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROOP TEST; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDAL STROOP TASK; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 84885010917     PISSN: 17582008     EISSN: 17582016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/npy.13.60     Document Type: Review

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