Six major steps to make investigations of suicide valuable for learning and prevention.
Fröding E, Vincent C, Andersson-Gäre B, et al. Six major steps to make investigations of suicide valuable for learning and prevention. Arch Suicide Res. 2024;28(1):1-19. doi:10.1080/13811118.2022.2133652.
Earlier research shows many investigations into suicide deaths are conducted to fulfill regulatory requirements, rather than to improve suicide-prevention interventions. This review identified six problems with investigations (e.g., failure to consider deeper system perspective) and proposed a new model of investigation which considers suicide a patient harm.