Resource Document on Psychiatric Violence Risk Assessment
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Assessing Violence Risk in Psychiatric Inpatients: Useful Tools
Psychiatrists who work in inpatient units are faced with daily decisions about predicting which patients will be violent, both in the hospital and after discharge. These decisions are often made using unstructured clinical judgment based on the clinician's experience and knowledge of the literature. How long such judgment stays the standard of care remains to be seen, because psychiatric resear...
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