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| High risk management guidelines for elderly suicidal patients in primary care settings | | Author(s) | G K Brown, M L Bruce, J L Pearson |
| Corporate Author | PROSPECT Study Group |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 16, no 6, June 2001 |
| Pages | pp 593-601 |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Depression ; Preventative medicine ; General practice ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older adults, especially older white men, are more likely to commit suicide than other age groups. The assessment and management of suicide ideation and behaviour for older people is especially relevant to primary care physicians, because many patients visit their doctor before committing suicide. In 1993, the US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) released clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of depression in primary care settings. The AHCPR guidelines offered some assistance in respect of detecting and treating patients who are suicidal. However, these guidelines lacked detailed and specific instructions for managing high-risk patients in the context of intervention research. The current set of guidelines - developed by staff associated with the PROSPECT (Prevention of Suicide in Primary care Elderly - Collaborative Trial) study - builds on this previous work by describing: a general approach for interacting with suicidal patients; structured assessments for determining the degree of risk for suicide; crisis intervention strategies; and ongoing management procedures for working with suicidal patients in primary care settings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010716211 A |
| Classmark | EV: ENR: LK2: L5: 7T |
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