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    Behavioral Health Autopsy Program (BHAP)

    Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

    Following the death of a Veteran by suicide, BHAP receives post-mortem medical data and interviewee contact information from VHA suicide prevention coordinators. Data include relevant historical activities and related medical concerns as reviewed in the Veteran's medical record. Interviewees typically include a Veteran's family or close friends. Interviewee data includes behavioral information about the Veteran prior to their death. Data are collected at the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention and are cleaned, processed, and managed by statistical staff and program analysts on behalf of Mental Health Services.

    Access & Use Information

    Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-10N-002
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-12-01
    Rights Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protected health information
    Category Basic Statistics, Use, and Operational Data
    Public Access Level non-public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 6b338603-2dc8-4dae-bbd6-9eedc0089696
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/47vy-pcre
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:044
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d90e3e86d51d195e63fd6e10ae55368cc6bd07000d873b208e65059655e18902
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2001-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

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