Data collection gaps
- Suicide data systems should add missing key variables or data elements (e.g., sociodemographics, mechanism of injury) to existing nonfatal data systems to enhance their usefulness.
- Medical records should include external cause coding (a data element needed to identify suicide attempts) as a requirement for reimbursement by insurance carriers
- Systems should capture “real-time” information on hospital emergency visits to improve the monitoring of trends in suicidal behavior.
- All States should be encouraged to include nonfatal suicidal behavior (suicide attempts) by youth 12 to 17 years of age as a health condition to be reported to the State health department.
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More than 42,000 Americans die from suicide each year. It’s the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause of death in youth (10 to 24 years of age) and young adults (25 to 34 years of age), claiming the lives of 12,073 individuals in these age brackets in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Risk factors such as depression, other mental disorders, and substance use, along with precipitating events such as relationship loss or disruption; and environmental circumstances like barriers to accessing mental health treatment, can contribute to suicidal behavior.
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