Personalized screen to identify suicidal teens in 14 ERs

Emergency Department Screen for Teens at Risk for Suicide (ED-STARS), a recently-launched study in a network of hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the country, will develop and test a personalized, computer-based suicide risk screening tool for teenagers. "We plan to refine algorithms capable of predicting which youth are most likely to attempt suicide. We will use these to develop a brief and personalized screening tool in which each question presented to a teen is based on the individual's previous responses' explained Cheryl King, Ph.D. of the University of Michigan, principal investigator on the NIMH-funded project.

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