Four-year retrospective survey of fire incidents in a psychiatric hospital.
This paper describes a four-year retrospective survey of fire incidents in a psychiatric hospital. The results suggest that there were sufficient similarities between a fire incident and a violent incident for the former to be included in a hospital register of violent incidents. The authors recommend that fire incidents should be studied prospectively, and that hospital fire officers should be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team auditing such incidents.
Barker
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Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne.
Forshaw
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Moxom
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D003625:Data Collection; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005390:Fires / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005391:Firesetting Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012637:Security Measures; D014754:Violence