Suicide Risk Assessment and Care Planning Clinical Pathway — Outpatient Specialty Care

Patient with Possible Suicide Risk

This pathway should be used to guide the screening, assessment, and care planning of patients at risk for suicidal ideation and/or suicidal behavior in an outpatient behavioral health setting:

Patients with behavioral or emotional concerns, or screening positive on a depression questionnaire like the PHQ-9
Patients with chronic or acute medical illness
Patients who have had a decline in overall clinical/behavioral/emotional functioning
Patients with recent suicidal ideation or behavior

It is important for clinicians to know and be aware of the presence of risk factors for suicidal ideation and/or behavior to ensure that patients are appropriately screened and referred for further assessment and treatment by behavioral health providers.

Exclusions

Patient ≤ 3 years

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The clinical pathways are based upon publicly available medical evidence and/or a consensus of medical practitioners at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”) and are current at the time of publication. These clinical pathways are intended to be a guide for practitioners and may need to be adapted for each specific patient based on the practitioner’s professional judgment, consideration of any unique circumstances, the needs of each patient and their family, and/or the availability of various resources at the health care institution where the patient is located.

Accordingly, these clinical pathways are not intended to constitute medical advice or treatment, or to create a doctor-patient relationship between/among The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”), its physicians and the individual patients in question. CHOP does not represent or warrant that the clinical pathways are in every respect accurate or complete, or that one or more of them apply to a particular patient or medical condition. CHOP is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the clinical pathways, or for any outcomes a patient might experience where a clinician consulted one or more such pathways in connection with providing care for that patient.

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