TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1986//
TI  - To search or not to search. Is there a clinical profile of a patient harboring a weapon?
JO  - General hospital psychiatry
A1  - Privitera, M. R.
A1  - Springer, M. O.
A1  - Perlmutter, R. A.
SP  - 442
EP  - 447
VL  - 8
IS  - 6
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0163-8343
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -