Six major steps to make investigations of suicide valuable for learning and prevention.

E. Fröding; C. Vincent; B. Andersson-Gäre; Å Westrin; A. Ros

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Six major steps to make investigations of suicide valuable for learning and prevention.

November 2, 2022

Fröding E, Vincent C, Andersson-Gäre B, et al. Arch Suicide Res. 2022;Epub Oct 19.

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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.

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