Emergency psychiatry and the assaultive patient.
The authors studied 62 emergency room patients with violent ideation or action to assess the feasibility of predicting assaultive behavior. Although the likelihood of future violent acts could not be predicted accurately, they discovered that a significant majority of violent patients were potentially treatable within the setting of emergency psychiatry practice.
D000184:Acting Out; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000150:complications; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011336:Probability; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014754:Violence; D000092864:Suicide Prevention