Organized Care of Suicide Attempt Patients in an Emergency Department

Abstract

More than thirty thousand people die by suicide every year in Japan. This paper introduces a synthetic activity of a surveillance committee of clinical care for suicide attempt patients of the Japanese Society of Emergency Medicine (JSEM). This committee publishes guidelines of clinical care for suicide attempt patients, which are utilized in the emergency department (ED) and for creation of a PEEC™ (Psychiatric Evaluation in Emergency Care) course for the staff treating suicide attempt patients in ED.