title: Protecting partial-hospitalization patients from suicide.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assessing suicide potential and intervening to prevent suicide in partial-hospitalization patients.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide information for assessing and intervening with outpatients who express suicidal thoughts and to propose a decision tree.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review, clinical experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Careful assessment and sound management are required to provide treatment in outpatient settings while maintaining patient safety. A decision tree can help the clinician make sound decisions.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA.
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Freed
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rudolph
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000379:methods*; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009736:Nursing Process; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D000092864:Suicide Prevention