Suicide risk assessment in a large public mental health service: do suicide risk classifications identify those at risk?
Marianne WyderManaan Kar RaySamara RussellKieran KinsellaDavid CromptonJeremy van den AkkerPublished in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2021)
The prediction value of suicide risk assessment tools is limited. The risk classifications of high, medium or low could become the basis of denying necessary treatment to many and delivering unnecessary treatment to some and should not be used for care allocation.