How do you determine whether borderline personality disorder patients require hospitalization?

I am noticing that, in my program, whether or not borderline patients are hospitalized after impulsive suicidal or parasuicidal acts is dealt with very inconsistently. It seems like most providers try to discern whether or not the patient is "in crisis" or "decompensated". However, in my opinion there is often unreliable data to discern this with, which leads to very subjective impressions of this and inconsistencies in management. My assumption in writing this is that the purpose of... Read more
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