Suicide risk assessment: where are we now?

Gordon, Michael S; Melvin, Glenn A

doi:10.5694/mja13.10761

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To the Editor: We applaud Ryan and Large for their timely editorial reviewing suicide risk factors.1 We agree that, with current knowledge, we do not know how to combine risk factors to produce a reliable predictor of suicide risk in the short to medium term.

1 Early in Life Mental Health Service, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC.
2 Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: michael.gordon@southernhealth.org.au

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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