Lethal means restriction for suicide prevention: Beliefs and behaviors of emergency department providers

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1013-1020

  Betz, Marian E ^a   Miller, Matthew ^b   Barber, Catherine ^b   Miller, Ivan ^c   Sullivan, Ashley F ^d   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^d   Boudreaux, Edwin D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; emergency psychiatry; firearm; hospital care; screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIREARM; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PLANNING; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAFF TRAINING; SUICIDE;

ATTITUDES; EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY; FIREARM; HOSPITAL CARE; SCREENING;

ADULT; AGED; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84885610162     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.22075     Document Type: Article

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