SUICIDE PREVENTION | BEYOND AWARENESS. TOWARD DETECTION.
Approximately 90% of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs patients who died by suicide in 2017 and 2018 had not been classified as high risk through the VA’s algorithmic and clinical identification processes (Levis et al., 2024). The VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline defines acute warning signs as patient-specific changes that signal an acute increase in suicide risk and possible suicidal behavior in the immediate future, defined as minutes to days (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs & U.S. Department of Defense, 2024). Prevention models that require visible crisis fail the definition of prevention.
Anyone who has served knows the volume of mandatory prevention training, safety briefs, screenings, stand-downs, and command messaging. Attendance is recorded. The warning is delivered. The institution can document that the required process occurred. It cannot establish that the person at risk was actually detected. This is not another awareness problem. It is a multidisciplinary scientific gap between what clinical systems can document and what they are not reliably equipped to detect beneath preserved function.
How many more have to die before we stop mistaking documented process for prevention?
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