Citation

Cassells C, Paterson B, Dowding D, Morrison R. Crisis 2005; 26(2): 53-63.

Affiliation

Department of Behavioural Medicine, University of Manchester School of Medicine, Hope Hospital, Manchester, UK. clare.cassels@manchester.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16138741

Abstract

The prediction of suicide remains a major challenge for health care professionals in inpatient settings. A clearer identification of factors specific to inpatient suicide is required to improve both practice and research within this area. This paper provides an overview of the inpatient suicide literature to date focusing on two particularly salient themes: Long term and short term prediction of suicide. Since the concept of short-term suicide risk dominates clinical practice, issues in relation to dynamic risk factors are emphasized.