Characteristics of assaultive psychiatric patients: Ten year analysis of the Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP)

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-69

  Flannery Jr , Raymond B ^a,b,c,e   Schuler, Anne P ^d   Farley, Ellen M ^d   Walker, Andrew P ^a  

^a MA Department of Mental Health   (United States)

^b Assaulted Staff Action Program   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Taunton State Hospital   (United States)

^e Department of Mental Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assaulted Staff Action Program; Assaults; Community settings; Inpatient settings; Patient characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; COMMUNITY CARE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; SAFETY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX RATIO; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VIOLENCE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH INSURANCE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; CRIME VICTIMS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RISK; TIME FACTORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036517040     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012844818643     Document Type: Article

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