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Sentinel events and predictors of suicide among inpatients at psychiatric hospitals

DOI: 10.1186/1744-859x-11-4

Keywords: retrospective study, sentinel event, suicide

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A total of 75 consecutive adult subjects were enrolled from 2 psychiatric units, 1 within a general hospital and 1 at a psychiatric hospital in southern Taiwan. A retrospective chart review of the psychiatric inpatients was conducted for patients that met the criteria for a sentinel event between July 2004 and May 2011. A comparison of the hospital settings was made and differences between suicidal and non-suicidal sentinel events studied.Psychiatric patients that received general hospital psychiatric services (1) appeared to experience a sentinel event soon after admission, (2) the time between the sentinel event occurrence and patient death was shorter, (3) there was a higher probability of potential medical illness than among inpatients treated at a specialized psychiatric hospital, (4) the sentinel event subjects that committed suicide were younger, had a shorter hospital stay, shorter time to occurrence of the sentinel event followed by an unexpected death than the non-suicidal group, and (5) a younger age, higher education level, previous suicide attempt and family psychiatric history were important predictors of suicide among psychiatric inpatients.The results of this study suggest that psychiatric inpatients treated at a general hospital require careful examination for potential physical illness and greater efforts to prevent suicide. A younger age, higher education level, history of a previous suicide attempt and family psychiatric history are additional risk factors for suicide among these patients.In order to improve patient safety, there have been significant changes in the way health services are provided in the hospital setting [1]. The delivery of mental health services is very complicated; it requires action at all levels of the healthcare organization that is coordinated and integrated in accordance with the principles of clinical governance [1].The terms 'sentinel event' and 'medical error' are not synonymous; not all sentinel events occur because

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