Risk assessment and management - A busy practitioner's perspective

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 201-206

  Davison, Sophie ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030847860     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540269775402     Document Type: Review

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