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* There is no validated method to identify patients at high risk who would improve with treatment/hospitalization. | * There is no validated method to identify patients at high risk who would improve with treatment/hospitalization. | ||
* 50% of suicides are from "low risk" patients.[([[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902221/|Large, M., Kaneson, M., Myles, N., Myles, H., Gunaratne, P., & Ryan, C. (2016). Meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies of suicide risk assessment among psychiatric patients: heterogeneity in results and lack of improvement over time. PloS one, 11(6), e0156322.]])] | * 50% of suicides are from "low risk" patients.[([[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902221/|Large, M., Kaneson, M., Myles, N., Myles, H., Gunaratne, P., & Ryan, C. (2016). Meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies of suicide risk assessment among psychiatric patients: heterogeneity in results and lack of improvement over time. PloS one, 11(6), e0156322.]])] | ||
- | * 50% of individuals who complete suicide have no prior history of suicide attempts | + | * 50% of individuals who complete suicide have no prior history of suicide attempts. |
+ | * Not all people who die by suicide have a psychiatric disorder. | ||
+ | * In Western high-income countries, the percentage of those who die by suicide with no psychiatric disorder is estimated to be between 5% and 40%.[([[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38381442/|Oquendo, M. A., Wall, M., Wang, S., Olfson, M., & Blanco, C. (2024). Lifetime suicide attempts in otherwise psychiatrically healthy individuals. JAMA psychiatry.]])] | ||
* There has been no improvement of accuracy of predicting suicides in the past 40 years, despite other advances in medicine, which speaks to the complexity of suicide as an outcome. | * There has been no improvement of accuracy of predicting suicides in the past 40 years, despite other advances in medicine, which speaks to the complexity of suicide as an outcome. | ||