@article{ref1,
title="To search or not to search. Is there a clinical profile of a patient harboring a weapon?",
journal="General hospital psychiatry",
year="1986",
author="Privitera, M. R. and Springer, M. O. and Perlmutter, R. A.",
volume="8",
number="6",
pages="442-447",
abstract="In many psychiatric emergency rooms such as ours, patients are not routinely searched for weapons. A study was conducted over a 2-month period, to begin to identify the intuitive cues or clinical factors involved in the decision to search a patient. Twenty-six patients who were searched were compared to 590 who were not searched. Among the patients who were searched, those who carried the means for self- or other-directed harm were compared to those who did not. Possible mechanisms involved in the decision-making process to search patients are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0163-8343",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}