Can risk assessment predict suicide in secondary mental healthcare? Findings from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register

ConclusionsAlthough suicide was linked with hopelessness and having a significant loss, risk assessment performed poorly to predict such an uncommon outcome in a large case register of patients receiving secondary mental healthcare.

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00127-018-1536-8

Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - June 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research