Joint Commission: suicide happening in hospital settings

Joint Commission: suicide happening in the Joint Commission hospital configuration issued an alert that no psychiatric patients are committed suicide in med/surg drives and EDs. The alert urges greater attention to the risk of suicide for these patients and recommended education for caregivers of warning signs.

Notes of alerts that many patients that kill general hospital units do not have a history of psychiatric disorders or attempts at suicidio.Casi 25% of the cases occurred in not psychiatric settings according to a press release.

Patient risk factors potentially suicidos include dementia, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain or severe acute pain, prognosis or terminal diagnosis and substance abuse, according to the alert.

May take steps, according to the press release hospitals, including personal suicide risk factors and signs warning that can indicate imminent action as well as be attentive to changes in behaviour or routines; educationtrain staff to call a mental health professional or a resource person to observing the changes in a patient;and train personnel to take measures, such as the placement of a patient under constant, if the patient exhibits warning signs of observation.

The Joint Commission also urges hospitals to follow the requirements for accreditation to prevent the suicidio.De pursuant to these guidelines, behavioral health care centres and hospitals should carry out an assessment of risk identifies the specific individual characteristics and environmental features that may increase the suicidios.Las facilities must address the needs of security arising from the risk assessment, and provides information for prevention of suicide as a crisis hotline at risk patients and their families to the discharge.

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