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Healing the Healer: How to Handle Physician Suicide

There’s a painful fact about medicine today, one practitioners and healthcare organizations are often hesitant to talk about: Physicians choose to end their lives at a rate of around twice the rest of the general population. Exact numbers are hard to come by because of inaccurate or misleading cause-of-death coding and likely under-reporting. According to […]

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Joint Commission: Four new suicide prevention EPs, three revised

The Joint Commission (TJC) announced revisions to its suicide prevention National Patient Safety Goal on November 27. NPSG 15.01.01 now has seven elements of performance (EP), up from three and will take effect July 1, 2019.

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PSS-3: Three-question suicide screener for the ER

The tool consists of a short introduction and three questions, with an optional fourth item if the person has previously attempted suicide. It’s meant to be given during triage or primary nursing assessment and has been validated for use on patients 18 and older. 

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Check(list) your ER for suicide risks

 With the renewed focus on ligature and self-harm, facilities need to undergo a complete reassessment of the physical environment where patients with behavioral or mental health problems are cared for. That goes especially for emergency departments. Annually, 460,000 emergency department visits occur following cases of self-harm, and those patients are six times more likely to make another suicide attempt in the future. 

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New suicide risk expectations from Joint Commission in aftermath of sentinel events stats

Review your policies and procedures for treating suicidal patients in general acute inpatient and emergency care areas following newly finalized recommendations from The Joint Commission.

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Joint Commission elaborates on accreditation reports, suicide risks, and toilet seats

The 2017 Chicago session of The Joint Commission’s annual Executive Briefings saw a far-ranging discussion on the future of accreditation. Attendees from around the country came and listened to the latest news on risk assessments, the SAFER Matrix, documentation, and suicide prevention.

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Surveyors on the lookout for suicide hazards

While last year The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert to hospitals urging them to do a better job of identifying suicidal ideation in patients, this year the accreditor is doubling down, issuing specific warnings in Joint Commission publications and FAQs outlining concerns about ligature, or hanging, risks.

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Sequencing Suicide Attempt with Bipolar Disorder

I am looking for guidance surrounding MS-DRG assignment when a patient is admitted to an acute inpatient hospital for the suicide attempt and then transferred to acute behavioral health. I can’t find coding clinics nor Excludes 1 or 2 notes that directs you to code the Bipolar disorder first instead of the Poisoning. Our UR department is stating that in order to get paid the Bipolar disorder needs to be principle diagnosis.

Thoughts?

Thank you,
Joanne

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