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Clinical audit will facilitate quality improvement by ensuring adherence to the standards required around suicide risk assessment. It will also inform the system on future training needs.
This chapter provides a brief audit checklist for emergency department, inpatient units, and outpatients medical and mental health clinics.
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Sadek, J. (2019). Suicide Risk Assessment Quality Monitoring. In: A Clinician’s Guide to Suicide Risk Assessment and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77773-3_7
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