Patient self-harm in the nonpsychiatric setting
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Pennsylvania patient safety advisory
- Author(s):
- Liberatore, Kim, author Rose, Carole M., author
- Contributor(s):
- Pennsylvania. Patient Safety Authority, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, March 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospitals Inpatients Outpatients Risk Management Self-Injurious Behavior -- epidemiology Self-Injurious Behavior -- prevention & control Patient Safety Humans Pennsylvania United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Amidst the quest to protect patients from healthcare-associated harm, acts of patient self-harm may challenge even the best-laid safety plans in unanticipated and potentially devastating ways. A query of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System database for reports submitted from July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2018, using the event type "Patient Self-Harm" identified 624 reports describing a spectrum of events involving intentional bodily harm outside of psychiatric settings--from possession of means to self-harm to completion of a self-harm act. Emergency departments and medical-surgical units were the most common event locations, and ingestion accounted for more than 40% of the reports describing self-harm acts. A list of risk reduction strategies and resources, including the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's ligature-risk assessment initiative, is provided.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101753793 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101753793