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ArticleCommunity mental health journal2023

"Treat Them Like a Human Being…They are Somebody's Somebody": Providers' Perspectives on Treating Patients in the Emergency Department After Self-Injurious Behavior.

Sara Wiesel Cullen, Cadence F Bowden, Mark Olfson, Steven C Marcus, Jeffrey M Caterino, Abigail M Ross, Stephanie K Doupnik, Gala True

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Article in Community mental health journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Impact of telemental health on suicide prevention care in U.S. emergency departments.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Sara Wiesel CullenSchool of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. swiesel@upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7846-5727
Cadence F BowdenDivision of General Pediatrics, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, and PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2716 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146, USA.
Mark OlfsonNew York State Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Steven C MarcusSchool of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Jeffrey M CaterinoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 751 Prior Hall 376 W 10th Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Abigail M RossGraduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, 113 W. 60th St, #721-D, New York, NY, 10023, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3706-4166
Stephanie K DoupnikDivision of General Pediatrics, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, and PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2716 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7022-9930
Gala TrueSection of Community and Population Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans School of Medicine, 533 Bolivar St., New Orleans, LA, 70117, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6965-8527
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USColumbia University · USFordham University · USPenn Center for AIDS Research · USSoutheast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System · USThe Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Improving the Emergency Department Management of Deliberate Self-HarmR01MH107452 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MARCUS, STEVEN C, OLFSON, MARK · 2016 to 2020
$4.3M
Continuity of Mental Health Care after Youth Hospitalization for Suicide Attempt - Administrative SupplementK23MH115162 · NIMH · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DOUPNIK, STEPHANIE · 2018 to 2021
$794k
NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH115162NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH107452
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To understand ED providers' perspective on how to best care for individuals who present to US emergency departments (EDs) following self-injurious behavior, purposive recruitment identified nursing directors, medical directors, and social workers (n = 34) for telephone interviews from 17 EDs. Responses and probes to "What is the single most important thing ED providers and staff can do for patients who present to the ED after self-harm?" were analyzed using directed content analysis approach. Qualitative analyses identified four themes: treat patients with respect and compassion; listen carefully and be willing to ask sensitive personal questions; provide appropriate care during mental health crises; connect patients with mental health care. Participants emphasized treating patients who present to the ED after self-injurious behavior with respect and empathy. Hospitals could incentivize provider mental health training, initiatives promoting patient-provider collaboration, and reimbursement strategies ensuring adequate staffing of providers with time to listen carefully.

Indexed as

Self-Injurious BehaviorEmergency Service, HospitalHumansMental HealthEmergency departmentMental healthSelf-injurious behavior

Identifiers

PMID35931907
PMCPMC10373641
OpenAlexW4289936179

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