Quality of psychiatric treatment -- not number of beds -- should be focus of suicide prevention

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Health care providers should focus on the overall quality of psychiatric care, depression screening and outpatient services to prevent suicide, not the number of available inpatient psychiatric beds, argue researchers from the University of Chicago and Columbia University in a new statistical analysis.

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