TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - Predictive validity of judgments of dangerousness in emergency civil commitment
JO  - American journal of psychiatry
A1  - McNiel, D. E.
A1  - Binder, Renée L.
SP  - 197
EP  - 200
VL  - 144
IS  - 2
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-953X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -