Risk assessment and receiver operating characteristic curves.
Risk assessment is now regarded as a necessary competence in psychiatry. The area under the curve (AUC) statistic of the receiver operating characteristic curve is increasingly offered as the main evidence for accuracy of risk assessment instruments. But, even a highly statistically significant AUC is of limited value in clinical practice.
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity