Strategies and Tactics to Target Ligature Risks
Patient suicide and self-harm both rank among The Joint Commission’s top 10 sentinel events. Suffocation-related suicide caused by hanging, asphyxiation, strangulation and other means was the second leading cause of self-inflicted deaths, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) measuring suicide mortality in the United States from 2000–2020….
