Introduction The Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation
Screening Outcome Evaluation examined whether universal suicide risk screening is feasible …

Background We sought to examine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of emergency
department (ED) providers concerning suicidal patient care and to identify characteristics …

Background Due to the concentration of individuals at-risk for suicide, an emergency department
visit represents an opportune time for suicide risk screening and intervention. Purpose …

Objective: The study examined changes in self-reported attitudes and practices related to
suicide risk assessment among providers at emergency departments (EDs) during a three-…

Objective: The main objective was to identify which patient characteristics have the strongest
association with suicide outcomes in the 12 months after an index emergency department (…

Objective: Suicide screening followed by an intervention may identify suicidal individuals and
prevent recurring self-harm, but few cost-effectiveness studies have been conducted. This …

The static kink, sphaleron and kink chain solutions for a single scalar field φ in one spatial
dimension are reconsidered. By integration of the Euler–Lagrange equation, or through the …

For f (x)∈ C [x] with f (x)≡ 0, we define f (x)= xdeg ff (1/x). The polynomial f is called the
reciprocal of f (x). The constant term of f is always non-zero. If the constant term of f is non-zero, …

Health care is a crucial factor in US economic growth, because growing health care costs
have made US corporations less competitive than their counterparts in countries where central …

Department heads, deans and faculty have for years struggled to achieve a fair and equitable
allocation of merit pay. This problem has also received national attention [22]. Recently, …