Second User Advisory Group: Results from Ireland, Sweden and Spain
The PERMANENS project aims to develop a prototype for a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) designed to assist healthcare professionals in the assessment and care of patients presenting with self-harm in the emergency department. The CDSS will provide a summary of the most critical risk factors and propose an evidence-based treatment plan, tailored to each patient’s individual risk profile.
To ensure that the tool meets the needs of end users, the project conducts User Advisory Groups (UAGs) as part of its research using mixed-methods approaches. These groups actively involve people with lived experience and healthcare professionals, whose insights are essential to the development process.
In this second UAG, we explored which aspects of a CDSS for risk stratification were considered essential for mental health professionals and people with lived experience to be useful in clinical practice. This post presents summaries of the key findings from Sweden, Ireland, and Spain. The full reports are available in Spanish, Catalan, and English.