Medical Providers Legal Responsibility With Suicidal Patients

The Suicidal Patient: Evaluation and …

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2021/0401/p417.html

Suicide rates in the United States increased from 20% to 30% between 2005 and 2015, and family physicians need evidence-based resources to address …

Liability and Patient Suicide | FOCUS

https://focus.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.focus.20190023

What is a Physician’s Liability When a …

https://www.alu.edu/alublog/what-is-physicians-liability-when-a-patient-commits-suicide/

It essentially comes down to a doctor’s duty. All doctors have a duty to their patients to treat them …

Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Suicidal Ideation

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/1999/0315/p1500.html

The components of an evaluation of patients with suicidal ideation are summarized in Table 2. New patients. Ask about a history of psychiatric illness and substance abuse; if …

Are clinicians responsible for clients’ self-inflicted injuries?

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/07-08/jn

The dissenters also noted that a legal duty to involuntarily commit potentially suicidal patients could expose physicians to liability for false imprisonment. Last …

Strategies to Avoid a Malpractice Suit When a Patient Commits …

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/strategies-avoid-malpractice-suit-when-patient-commits-suicide

A psychiatrist may assume a therapeutic alliance with a patient; however, about 25% of patients do not admit suicidal ideation to their health care provider. 2 …

Law & Psychiatry: Patients' Responsibility for Their Suicidal …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.51.1.15

Psychiatrists' liability for their patients' suicides seems qualitatively different than many other forms of medical malpractice. When a surgeon makes an incision in a …

Essential clinical and legal issues when working with the suicidal …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10137760/

The legal and clinical literatures on the standards of care for adult suicidal patients are reviewed. We discuss the components of an effective risk management approach that …

If a doctor believes that a patient might hurt himself or herself or ...

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Thus, to the extent that a provider determines that there is a serious and imminent threat of a patient physically harming self or others, HIPAA would permit the …

Responsible Reporting of Suicide - National …

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Responsible Reporting of Suicide. Experts estimate that about 800,000 people die by suicide every year. More than 47,000 of these deaths occur in the …