title: Risk for suicide and risk for violence: a case for separating the current violence diagnoses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify accurate descriptive terms for risk for violence and risk for suicide and to provide operational definitions for these terms
  
  
  METHODS
  The Delphi technique, with two rounds, was used to differentiate the operational definitions that represent risk for suicide from those that represent risk for violence. The expert panel consisted of 23 healthcare professionals with a minimum of a master's degree. In addition to the expert panel, a control group (N = 11) participated to assess content validity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-six definitions were agreed upon for suicide, 39 for violence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These definitions represent the basic distinctions between the two behavioral manifestations.
authors.affiliation: Allegheny University Hospital/Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, USA.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Early
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Lauck
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Oblaczynski
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Smochek
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003697:Delphi Technique; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data