Effectiveness and Implementation of a Clinician Decision Support System to Prevent Suicidal Behaviors

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Conditions studied: Suicide, Suicide, Attempted

In brief

The primary aim of this project are to evaluate a comprehensive, practice-ready, and deployment-focused strategy for improving the prediction and prevention of suicide attempts among a sample of 4,000 patients presenting to an ED with a psychiatric concern. The first aim is to evaluate the effects of providing information about risk of patient suicidal behavior to ED clinicians. The investigators hypothesize that patients randomly assigned to have their clinician receive their risk score will have a lower rate of suicide attempts during 6-month follow-up and that this effect will be mediated by changes in clinician decision-making.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05671133

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

4000

Starts

2025-02-25

Expected to finish

2028-09-28

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult status (≥18 years-old);
• Willing to provide an email address;
• Presentation at the APS

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to understand the study procedures and provide informed consent such as those with gross cognitive impairment (including florid psychosis), intellectual disability, dementia, acute intoxication, or the presence of extremely agitated or violent behavior
• Decisions about inclusion/exclusion criteria will be made by the emergency department providers on duty at the time. These broad inclusion criteria maximize the clinical applicability of obtained results while the exclusion criteria ensure the ethical principle of respect for persons.

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States (enrolling)

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