ArticleGeneral hospital psychiatry
Emergency Department patients with suicide risk: Differences in care by acute alcohol use.
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- Impact of Alcohol Intoxication on Mortality and Emergency Department Resource Use in Suicidal Patients.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Adapting the Zero Suicide framework to the adult emergency department setting: Strategies for nurse leaders.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2024Article
- Suicidal behaviors and associated factors among patients attending an emergency department: a facility-based cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- The association of acute alcohol use and dynamic suicide risk with variation in onward care after psychiatric crisis.Drug and alcohol review · 2021Article
- An investigation of clinical decisionmaking: identifying important factors in treatment planning for suicidal patients in the emergency department.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2020Article
- National study of emergency department disposition for high suicide risk geriatric patients.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare Emergency Department (ED) care of suicidal patients with and without documented acute alcohol use.
methodsRetrospective chart review of randomly sampled patient visits (n = 800; January 2014 to December 2015) at an urban ED with universal screening for suicide risk. Eligible visits were by adults (18+ years) who screened positive for suicide risk at the ED visit (i.e., suicidal ideation in past two weeks or suicide attempt in past six months). Analyses compared those with and without documentation of acute alcohol use.
resultsAmong these patients with suicide risk, 19% had documented acute alcohol use (versus 43% with no use and 38% without documentation); individuals with acute alcohol use were more often male and aged 35-59 years. Overall, 62% were evaluated by a mental health professional in the ED. Individuals with acute alcohol use were significantly less likely (vs those without use) to be evaluated by a mental health professional in the ED (odds ratio 0.49, 95%CI 0.28-0.87) after adjustment for age, recent suicide ideation, current suicide plan, self-harm as a chief complaint, contact with family, and ED disposition.
conclusionsAlthough alcohol use can increase suicide risk, ED patients with acute use appear to receive less thorough suicide risk assessments.
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