Predicting inpatient violence using an extended version of the Brøset-Violence-Checklist: Instrument development and clinical application

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Abderhalden, Christoph ^a   Needham, Ian ^b   Dassen, Theo ^c   Halfens, Ruud ^d   Haug, Hans Joachim ^e   Fischer, Joachim ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BROSET VIOLENCE CHECKLIST; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VIOLENCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGGRESSION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SWITZERLAND; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33646561848     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-6-17     Document Type: Article

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