Management of suicidal risk in the emergency department: A clinical pathway using the computerized adaptive screen for suicidal youth.

Jacqueline Grupp-PhelanAdam HorwitzDavid BrentLauren ChernickRohit ShenoiCharlie CasperMichael WebbCheryl Kingnull null

Published in: Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open (2024)

The CASSY can be a valuable tool in providing patient-specific risk probabilities for a suicide attempt at 3 months and tailor the threshold cutoffs based on the availability of local mental health resources. We give an example of a clinical risk pathway, which should include segmentation of the ED population by medical versus psychiatric chief complaint.

Keyphrases

mental health
emergency department
depressive symptoms
deep learning
machine learning
young adults
convolutional neural network