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Emergency Department Best Practices: Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk
To address the care gap between emergency departments and outpatient care, the Action Alliance’s Care Transitions Advisory Group convened a group of health care and suicide prevention experts to form the Emergency Department Subgroup (ED Subgroup).
The Emergency Department Subgroup developed Emergency Department Best Practices: Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk (ED Best Practices), which provides recommendations specifically for care transitions from emergency departments to outpatient care.
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