Emergency Department Management of Suicidal Ideation: Challenges, Misperceptions, and Hope.

Kamal Gursahani, Douglas Char, Michael P Wilson, Robert F Poirier

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Article in Missouri medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed

0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% 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.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

Towards a Better Use of Safety Planning in Emergency Departments: An Exploratory Study of Patients and Clinicians' Perspectives.Community mental health journal · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kamal GursahaniVice Chair for Education, and Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Douglas CharAssociate Vice Chair for Faculty Development, and Professor, Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Michael P WilsonAssistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Robert F PoirierChief of Clinical Operations and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Washington University in St. Louis · USUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavioral crises continue to escalate across the United States. Our country has one of the highest suicide rates amongst developed nations. More than 45,000 U.S. citizens are dying annually now from suicide. Many with suicidal ideation seek care in Emergency Departments in hospital systems under resourced to handle this growing public health crisis. Evidenced-based screening, risk stratification, and treatment continues to evolve and is not standardized. Improved suicide education needs to be more broadly applied across healthcare and society. Missouri as a state is making concentrated efforts to improve resources and care for those with suicidal ideation. Many challenges need to be overcome and time will tell if new statewide initiatives will reduce Missouri's high rate of suicide.

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Suicidal IdeationSuicide PreventionEmergency Service, HospitalHumansMass ScreeningSuicide, AttemptedUnited States

Identifiers

PMID36337996

PMCPMC9616452

OpenAlexW4308550976

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