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In its latest sentinel event alert, issued Nov. 17, The Joint Commission calls attentions to preventing suicide risks in the emergency department and medical/surgical unit and recommends educating clinicians, noting that many of these suicides are committed by patients who had no prior psychiatric history.

Educating ED staff to care for psych patients