Questions, indicators and reporting forms/timeline used to measure the care for suicide attempters, Belgian Network of Sentinel General Practices, 2013–2016
Care measure | Questions to the GPs | Reporting form/timeline |
1 | Whether the GP had been the first professional caregiver (called out) following the attempt | Baseline |
2 | Whether the patient received hospital (emergency) care following the attempt | |
3 | Whether there had been a patient contact in the month preceding the attempt | |
4 | Whether suicide risk was noticed by the GP during contact in month preceding the attempt | |
5 | Whether the patient with a mental disorder (depression or other) was receiving specialised mental healthcare in the last 12 months | |
6 | Whether there had been any patient contact after the attempt | First and second follow-up |
7 | Whether there had been a contact with patient proxies (family or friends) | First follow-up |
8 | Whether follow-up appointments had been scheduled with the patient | Second follow-up |
9 | Whether the patient was receiving specialised mental healthcare | Second follow-up |
10 | Whether the GP had received patient care information from the hospital (emergency service) about the patient | First and second follow-up |
Indicators of quality of care are marked in bold.
GP, general practitioner.