@article{ref1,
title="Predicting inpatient violence in acute psychiatric wards using the Brøset-Violence-Checklist: a multicentre prospective cohort study",
journal="Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing",
year="2004",
author="Abderhalden, Christoph and Needham, I. and Miserez, B. and Almvik, R. and Dassen, Theo W. N. and Haug, H-J and Fischer, J. E.",
volume="11",
number="4",
pages="422-427",
abstract="The Norwegian Brøset-Violence-Checklist (BVC) is one of the few instruments that is suitable for short-term prediction of violence of psychiatric inpatients by nursing staff in routine care. The instrument assesses the presence or absence of six behaviours or states frequently observed before a violent incident. We conducted a study to elucidate whether the predictive properties of the BVC are retained in other psychiatric settings than the original north-Norwegian validation dataset. During their admission period, 219 consecutive patients admitted to six acute psychiatric wards were assessed as to the risk for attack using a German version of the BVC (BVC-G). Data on preventive measures were concurrently collected. Aggressive incidents were registered using an instrument equivalent to the Staff Observation of Aggression Scale (SOAS-R). Fourteen attacks towards staff were observed with incident severity ranging from 5 to 18 of a possible 22 points. BVC-G sensitivity was 64.3%, the specificity 93.9%, the positive predictive value 11.1%, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.88. In some false positive cases intense preventive measures had been implemented. The predictive accuracy of the BVC-G proved consistent with the Norwegian original.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1351-0126",
doi="10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00733.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00733.x"
}