The Validity and Utility of Risk Assessment for Inpatient Suicide

It is widely assumed that identifying clinical risk factors can allow us to determine which patients are at high risk of suicide while in hospital, and that identifying those patients can help prevent inpatient suicide. We aimed to examine the validity and utility of categorizing psychiatric patients to be at either high or low risk of committing suicide while in hospital.The assumption that high-risk categorizations are valid was examined by...