Chapter 27.Suicide Risk Assessment
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When retained in professional liability cases involving patient suicide, forensic evaluators have to provide testimony regarding whether defendant psychiatrists met the standard of care. Appropriate suicide risk assessment (SRA) and treatment interventions based on the level of risk are essential elements of this determination. Although failure to perform an adequate SRA is rarely the only claim of professional negligence made when patients commit suicide, patient suicide is one of the leading causes of professional liability suits against psychiatrists. Since 2006, suicide and attempted suicide have accounted for 15% of malpractice claims in the United States (see Table 12–1 in Chapter 12, “Professional Liability in Psychiatric Practice”) (Professional Risk Management Services 2016).
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