Suicide Risk Assessment by Residents: Deficiencies of Documentation

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 513-519

  Tanguturi, Yasas ^a   Bodic, Maria ^a   Taub, Abraham ^a   Homel, Peter ^a   Jacob, Theresa ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency psychiatry; Residents; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85024362346     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: 15457230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-016-0644-6     Document Type: Article

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