The utility of the Historical Clinical Risk -20 Scale as a predictor of outcomes in decisions to transfer patients from high to lower levels of security-A UK perspective

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dolan, Mairead ^a   Blattner, Regine ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRIME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HISTORICAL CLINICAL RISK 20 SCALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIMINAL LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; OFFENDER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRISONERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY MEASURES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77957109642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-76     Document Type: Article

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