Improve: Continuous Quality Evaluation
Improve emphasizes the importance of continuous quality improvement in suicide prevention efforts. This includes ongoing data collection, evaluation, and regular review of processes, policies, and procedures. Sustaining this work requires consistent monitoring to assess effectiveness and ensure initiatives are achieving intended outcomes.
Data collected through Organizational Self Studies can guide progress and identify areas for continued improvement of work. Additionally, embedding metrics and monitoring outcomes through qualitative and quantitative methods can provide key data to maintain and enhance initiatives. Monitoring data around screening, assessment, intervention, and outcomes is key in centering improvement in this work. Identifying pathways to collect data around suicide deaths through state and county partners can also identify potential strategies to enhance care and identify gaps.
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Formative evaluation of Zero Suicide in the emergency department: Identifying strategies to overcome implementation barriers.
Allison MK, Waliski A, Haynes TF, Marshall SA. Evaluation and Program Planning, 2022 92.
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102050
The development and validation of a dashboard prototype for real-time suicide mortality data.
Benson R, Brunsdon C, Rigby J, Corcoran P, Ryan M, Cassidy E, Arensman E. Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022, 4(909294).
DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.909294
An implementation evaluation of “Zero Suicide” using normalization process theory to support high-quality care for patients at risk of suicide.
Richards JE, Simon GE, Boggs JM, Beidas R, Yarborough BJH, Coleman KJ, Sterling SS, Beck A, Flores JP, Bruschke C, Goldstein Grumet J, Stewart CC, Schoenbaum M, Westphal J, Ahmedani BK. Implementation Research and Practice, 2021 2,
DOI: 10.1177/26334895211011769
The development and validation of a dashboard prototype for real-time suicide mortality data.
Benson R, Brunsdon C, Rigby J, Corcoran P, Ryan M, Cassidy E, Dodd P, Hennebry D, Arensman E.. Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022, 4, 909294.
DOI: 10.1177/26334895211011769
