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Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ)

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · 2012 · Vol. 166(12) · pp. 1170–1170

Lisa M. Horowitz✉(National Institutes of Health)Jeffrey A. Bridge(The Ohio State University)Stephen J. Teach(Children's National)Elizabeth D. Ballard(Catholic University of America)Jennifer Klima(Nationwide Children's Hospital)Donald L. Rosenstein(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Elizabeth A. Wharff(Harvard University Press)Katherine Ginnis(Harvard University Press)Elizabeth Cannon(Nationwide Children's Hospital)Paramjit T. Joshi(George Washington University)Maryland Pao(National Cancer Institute)

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Abstract

A 4-question screening instrument, the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ), with high sensitivity and negative predictive value, can identify the risk for suicide in patients presenting to pediatric emergency departments.

Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Emergency and Acute Care Studies Poisoning and overdose treatmentsSuicidal ideationMedicineEmergency departmentPsychiatrySuicide preventionSuicide attemptReceiver operating characteristicPoison controlEmergency medicineInternal medicine

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AdolescentChildCross-Sectional StudiesEmergency Service, HospitalFemaleHumansMaleMass ScreeningPediatricsProspective StudiesSurveys and QuestionnairesSensitivity and SpecificitySuicideSuicide, AttemptedLogistic Models