Care Models · United States
NIMH: primary care can play a key role in suicide prevention
Adding suicide care practices to routine adult primary care visits reduced suicide attempts by 25%.
An NIMH research highlight summarizes a large study showing that adding standardized suicide-care practices into routine adult primary care visits reduced suicide attempts by 25% in the months following the visit.
The finding is significant because most people who die by suicide saw a primary care clinician — not a mental health specialist — in the preceding year.
Read NIMH's full research highlight for the study details.
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