Abstract：
Suicide is a significant and increasing public health concern. Research has shown that screening for suicide risk is inconsistent in acute care settings and that a variety of different tools are used for that purpose. The Columbia-Suicide Severity Risk Scale (C-SSRS) has emerged as a validated and recognised suicide risk screening tool. This article describes a quality improvement project designed to improve the screening of patients for suicide risk in a large hospital system in the Midwestern US. As part of the project, 97% of nurses working in the organisation\'s emergency departments self-completed a 30-minute interactive learning module on the background, relevance and application of the C-SSRS. The C-SSRS enables nurses to classify the severity of suicide risk, which helps to provide interventions commensurate with patients\' level of risk. Following completion of the module, there was a significant increase in the percentage of patients screened for suicide risk.
摘要：
自杀是一个重要且日益增加的公共卫生问题。研究表明，在急性护理环境中，对自杀风险的筛查是不一致的，并且为此目的使用了各种不同的工具。哥伦比亚自杀严重程度风险量表（C-SSRS）已成为经过验证和认可的自杀风险筛查工具。本文介绍了一项质量改进项目，旨在改善美国中西部大型医院系统中患者的自杀风险筛查。作为项目的一部分,在该组织的急诊科工作的97％的护士在后台自行完成了30分钟的交互式学习模块，C-SSRS的相关性和应用。C-SSRS使护士能够对自杀风险的严重程度进行分类，这有助于提供与患者风险水平相称的干预措施。模块完成后，接受自杀风险筛查的患者百分比显著增加.
