title: Validating a psychiatric patient classification system.
abstract: Validation studies are crucial to the establishment of an accurate patient classification system in the psychiatric setting. This paper describes and discusses a validity study done on four forensic psychiatric units. Administrators will find the design applicable to other types of psychiatric units. The recommendations are useful for validating a patient classification system in any setting.
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006757:Hospital Units; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification*; D012107:Research Design; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013808:Therapeutic Community; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014922:Wisconsin; D000078329:Workforce