Risk Alert System to Facilitate Universal Suicide Risk Screening in Emergency Care: Protocol for a Prediction Model and Software Development Study Using a Co-Design Approach
Montserrat López-Fernández, Raúl Rodríguez Valderas, Ana Portillo-Van Diest, Gemma Vilagut, Miguel-Ángel Mayer, Ángela Leis, Montse Ferrer, Franco Amigo, Laura Latorre, Tatiana Leiss, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Jorge Lemos Portela, Jordi Alonso, Manuel Pastor, Philippe Mortier, Javad Sarvestan · 2026
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Description
Many people who die by suicide visited an emergency department in the months before, and a protocol describes a co-designed alert system to screen every emergency patient for suicide risk. Montserrat Lopez-Fernandez and co-authors present that protocol in this 2026 paper. Universal screening catches patients who arrive for unrelated complaints and never mention despair.
The project pairs a prediction model, built from health records, with software that flags high-risk patients during the emergency visit. Patients and clinicians helped design the system so the alerts fit real workflow instead of adding noise. The paper is a protocol: it states the aims, data, and evaluation plan before results exist. Publishing protocols lets other teams copy the design and holds the team to its stated analysis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Montserrat López-Fernández, Raúl Rodríguez Valderas, Ana Portillo-Van Diest, Gemma Vilagut, Miguel-Ángel Mayer, Ángela Leis, Montse Ferrer, Franco Amigo, Laura Latorre, Tatiana Leiss, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Jorge Lemos Portela, Jordi Alonso, Manuel Pastor, Philippe Mortier, Javad Sarvestan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |