Connecting Research and Practice: Implementation of Suicide Prevention Strategies in Learning Health Care Systems

Psychiatr Serv. 2022 Feb 1;73(2):219-222. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000596. Epub 2021 Jun 30.

Abstract

The health care systems affiliated with the Mental Health Research Network strive to be learning health care systems that identify and address evidence gaps of importance to clinicians, patients, and funders. This column describes how research guides clinical care and clinical care guides research in the area of suicide prevention as well as some of the challenges of conducting embedded research.

Keywords: Research/service delivery; Suicide; mental health.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Humans
  • Mental Health
  • Suicide Prevention*