Mental Health Settings Implemented ‘Zero Suicide’ Tools More Consistently

In six large health systems implementing Zero Suicide clinical practices, for people who screened positive for suicidal ideation, mental health settings provided risk assessments for suicidal ideation at higher rates than primary care settings, at 76.8% compared to 43.2%. For those who were identified at high risk, mental health settings and primary care settings both provided lethal means counseling to 82.4% of health care consumers. Most of the insured patient population studied did not have annual healthcare visits, which meant that even when universal visit-based screening programs for suicide ideation were implemented in primary care, the . . .