Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Patients
- 25 September 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (13), 910-915
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199709253371307
Abstract
The assessment of suicidal thoughts or behavior and its management are topics relevant to all clinicians, not just mental health professionals. Up to two thirds of patients who commit suicide have seen a physician in the month before their death.15 Many patients who kill themselves do so by taking an overdose of prescribed medications, and physicians sometimes unwittingly provide the means for suicide in a single prescription.3 Few patients spontaneously report their suicidal thoughts and intentions to their physicians,4 so the clinician must be alert to signals that a patient may be at risk for suicide. Although the patient . . .Keywords
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