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teaching:suicide-risk-assessment-sra [on June 23, 2023]
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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.