Risk of violence by psychiatric patients: beyond the "actuarial versus clinical" assessment debate

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 184-190

  Buchanan, Alec ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; OFFENDER; OUTPATIENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 85047685809     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2008.59.2.184     Document Type: Review

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