Predictors of violence in civilly committed acute psychiatric patients |
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Authors: | D E McNiel R L Binder T K Greenfield |
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Institution: | Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. |
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Abstract: | The authors investigated the relationship between community violence and violence in the hospital for patients hospitalized through emergency civil commitment. The medical charts of 238 patients involuntarily admitted to a university-based acute inpatient unit were reviewed for evidence of violence during the 2 weeks before commitment and the first 72 hours of hospitalization. Patients who were violent in the community were more likely to be violent in the hospital. A discriminant function analysis was used to identify the combination of information concerning community violence and patient background characteristics that most efficiently predicted which patients were violent during emergency commitment. |
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