Clinician Decision Support Tool for Suicide Prevention
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
The primary aim of this project are to evaluate a comprehensive, practice-ready, and deployment-focused strategy for improving the prediction and prevention of suicide attempts among a sample of 4,000 patients presenting to an ED with a psychiatric concern. Our first aim is to evaluate the effects of providing information about risk of patient suicidal behavior to ED clinicians. We hypothesize that patients randomly assigned to have their clinician receive their risk score will have a lower rate of suicide attempts during 6-month follow-up and that this effect will be mediated by changes in clinician decision-making.
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for patients who come to the emergency department with psychiatric concerns. It's not specified, but typically participants would need to be mentally capable of consent and not have conditions that exclude them from study participation.Inclusion Criteria
Timeline for a Trial Participant
Screening
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial
Treatment
Participants' clinicians are provided with or without the Clinician Decision Support Tool to evaluate its effect on preventing suicide attempts
Follow-up
Participants are monitored for suicide attempts using self-report surveys and electronic health records
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Clinician Decision Support Tool
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lead Sponsor