title: Predictors of violence in civilly committed acute psychiatric patients.
abstract: The authors investigated the relationship between community violence and violence in the hospital for patients hospitalized through emergency civil commitment. The medical charts of 238 patients involuntarily admitted to a university-based acute inpatient unit were reviewed for evidence of violence during the 2 weeks before commitment and the first 72 hours of hospitalization. Patients who were violent in the community were more likely to be violent in the hospital. A discriminant function analysis was used to identify the combination of information concerning community violence and patient background characteristics that most efficiently predicted which patients were violent during emergency commitment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: McNiel
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Binder
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Greenfield
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014754:Violence