Data Publications

Suicide Related Emergency Department Visits

Background: Rhode Island Department of Health’s (RIDOH) Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant has developed a quarterly data publication on suicide related emergency department visits. Rhode Island’s ten acute care hospital emergency departments (EDs) submit data to RIDOH’s ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics) database for syndromic surveillance. These hospitals include Fatima Hospital, Kent Hospital, Landmark Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, Roger Williams Hospital, South County Hospital, Westerly Hospital, and Women and Infants Hospital. Specialty hospitals such as Bradley Hospital and Butler Hospital are not included in the data below. 

Suicide Related Emergency Department visits includes nonfatal suicide related visits for Rhode Islanders 10 years of age and older including suicide ideation, self-harm/suicide attempt, or a combination of both. 

RI Suicide Mortality for Males in Construction and Extraction Occupations

Background

Between 2017-2021, suicide mortality data reveal males, age 25-64, are the age group that is most impacted by suicide. This trend continues in the construction and extraction occupation group. 

RI Suicide Mortality for Males in Construction and Extraction Occupations PDF file, about 2mbmegabytes

Suicide-Related Mortality and Morbidity: Insights from Rhode Island’s Violent Death Reporting and Syndromic Surveillance Systems (RIVDRS)

Background

In this article, characteristics of suicide decedents are summarized and compared across the two most recent five-year time periods in RIVDRS. Characteristics of suicide-related emergency department (ED) visits during the two most recent completed years are also compared.

Suicide-Related Mortality and Morbidity PDF file, less than 1mbmegabytes

Analysis of Intentional and Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths Occurring in Rhode Island, 2016–2019

Background

In this article, characteristics of individuals who died from an intentional drug overdose death in Rhode Island’s Violent Death Reporting and Syndromic Surveillance Systems (RIVDRS) will be compared to those who died from an unintentional drug overdose death in State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) to better understand differences by intent.

Analysis of Intentional and Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths Occurring in Rhode Island PDF file, less than 1mbmegabytes