@article{ref1,
title="Predictive validity of judgments of dangerousness in emergency civil commitment",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="1987",
author="McNiel, D. E. and Binder, Renée L.",
volume="144",
number="2",
pages="197-200",
abstract="The authors investigated the predictive validity of judgments of dangerousness made in the context of emergency civil commitment. The medical charts of 101 consecutive patients involuntarily admitted to a university-based acute inpatient unit were reviewed for evidence of violence within the first 72 hours of hospitalization. More than two-thirds of the patients committed as a danger to others engaged in some type of violence, compared with fewer than one-third of other involuntary patients. The findings suggest that the emergency commitment situation permits judgments of dangerousness with a relatively high degree of short-term predictive validity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}