TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Known unknowns and unknown unknowns in suicide risk assessment: evidence from meta-analyses of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty
JO  - BJPsych bulletin
A1  - Large, Matthew
A1  - Galletly, Cherrie
A1  - Myles, Nicholas
A1  - Ryan, Christopher James
A1  - Myles, Hannah
SP  - 160
EP  - 163
VL  - 41
IS  - 3
N2  - Suicide risk assessment aims to reduce uncertainty in order to focus treatment and supervision on those who are judged to be more likely to die by suicide. In this article we consider recent meta-analytic research that highlights the difference between uncertainty about suicide due to chance factors (aleatory uncertainty) and uncertainty that results from lack of knowledge (epistemic uncertainty). We conclude that much of the uncertainty about suicide is aleatory rather than epistemic, and discuss the implications for clinicians.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2056-4694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.116.054940
ID  - ref1
ER  -