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Quality assurance and parasuicides presenting to casualty departments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher H. Cantor
Christopher H. Cantor*
Affiliation:
Suicide Research and Prevention Program, Queensland Health, GPO Box 48, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia
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In view of concern regarding rising youth suicide rates, suicide being a critical event in increasing emphasis on clinical accountability, I conducted a quality assurance exercise in relation to casualty department assessments of parasuicides. While much has been written in the area of suicide assessment and rating scales, I found nothing adequate for my purpose. Accordingly, I present a format for conducting such an exercise with the aim of providing suggestions as to which clinical assessment items might usefully be emphasised in future clinical assessments. It has been designed solely to guide this process with no attempts to estimate reliability or validity.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , March 1993 , pp. 141 - 144
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1993

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