Evidence brief: Suicide prevention in veterans
Despite the US Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) increased efforts over the past decade in implementing comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program initiatives, according to the new VA National Suicide Data Report 2005-2015, an average of 20 Veterans continue to die each day by suicide. An impo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Health Services Research & Development Service
2018, September 2018
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| Series: | Evidence-based synthesis program
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| Summary: | Despite the US Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) increased efforts over the past decade in implementing comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program initiatives, according to the new VA National Suicide Data Report 2005-2015, an average of 20 Veterans continue to die each day by suicide. An important barrier to the success of VA's suicide prevention initiatives may be the lack of adequate evidence in Veterans supporting recommendations of any specific risk assessment method or prevention intervention |
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| Item Description: | Continuation of Systematic review of suicide prevention in veterans / prepared for, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Health Services Research & Development Service ; prepared by, Evidence-based Synthesis Program (ESP) Center, Portland VA Medical Center ; principal investigator, Heidi D. Nelson ; contributing investigators, Lauren Denneson, Allison Low, Brian W. Bauer, Maya O'Neil, Devan Kansagara, Alan R. Teo |
| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (iii, 53, i, 27 pages) illustrations |