The Correspondence Between the Staff Observation Aggression Scale-Revised and Two Other Indicators for Aggressive Incidents

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 283-288

  Tenneij, Nienke H ^a,b,c,d,e   Goedhard, Laurette E ^a,b,c,d,e   Stolker, Joost J ^a,b,c,d,e   Nijman, Henk ^a,b,c,d,e   Koot, Hans M ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Ministerie van Justitie   (Netherlands)

^c Altrecht Mental Health Institute   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; NETHERLANDS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING AUDIT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING RECORDS; OBSERVATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 67650757273     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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