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… research has emphasized suicide prevention in inpatient mental health settings , but less is known about suicide in … no relationship between overall quality of outpatient mental healthcare and suicide rates among patients treated by …

… . This study compared unplanned discharges across Veterans Health Affairs (VHA) acute inpatient and residential mental health treatment settings over a ten-year period and … that unplanned discharges are significantly higher in mental health settings. The authors recommend that unplanned …

… workers in an academic medical center. Perspect Psychiatr Care. Epub 2022 Apr 6. doi: 10.1111/ppc.13072 …

… can compromise decision making and contribute to poor care. In this study, nurses were provided two patient … documentation on decision-making and judgement. Int J Mental Health Nurs. Epub 2022 Mar 30. doi: 10.1111/inm.12997 …

Patient engagement in safety efforts is encouraged, but patients are less often included as active participants in designing patient safety interventions. This review identified 52 studies that included mental health patients in the design, delivery, implementation, and/or evaluation of patient safety research. The authors argue that increased inclusion of patients in safety research may lead to development of higher quality safety interventions.

… bias . This commentary discusses this phenomenon in the mental health sector and  suggests a role for researchers to reduce … practice while limiting its detrimental impact on care nationwide. … Bryant BE, Jordan A, Clark US. Race as a …

… Allowing patients to access their own ambulatory clinical health record has benefits such as identification of errors … study focused on risks and benefits of patient access to mental health care records. Experts suggested the benefits would be similar …

… Effective integration of health information systems can improve decision making and care coordination across practice settings. This article … action-oriented safe practice recommendations from health information technology and electronic health record …

… Safety and quality of care for psychiatric patients is a relatively understudied … scoping review explores patient safety strategies used in psychiatry. The review identified seven key strategies that … and falls. … Svensson J.  Patient safety strategies in psychiatry and how they construct the notion of preventable …

Missed diagnosis of mental health conditions can lead to serious adverse outcomes. Researchers evaluated data from 2008 to 2017 from 14 state Maternal Mortality Review Committees and found that 11% of pregnancy-related deaths were due to mental health conditions. A substantial proportion of people with a pregnancy-related mental health cause of death had a history of depression or past/current substance use. Researchers conclude that addressing gaps maternal mental health care is essential to improving maternal safety.

… Safety gaps in mental health care offers a limited view if focused primarily on patient … and mental health-a growing quality gap in Canada. Can J Psychiatry. 2021:7067437211036596. …

… and patient- and practice-level risk factors for 22 mental health-related PSIs for medication prescribing and monitoring in primary care. The authors found that potentially inappropriate …

… setting. Using retrospective record review from three mental health hospitals, clinical pharmacists confirmed that ADEs … severity and preventability of adverse drug events in mental health settings: findings from the MedicAtion relateD …

… all instances of suicide and suicide attempts on Veterans Health Administration (VHA) grounds. Forty-seven suicides or …

Medication errors are common in mental health hospitals. This study found medication administration and prescribing were the most common stages of medication error. Staff-, organizational-, patient-, and equipment-related factors were identified as contributing to medication safety incidents.