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A critical appraisal of violent incident measures
- Author:
- BOWERS Len
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(4), August 1999, pp.339-349.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Instrumentation for the recording of violence incidents in psychiatric wards for the purpose of research remain rudimentary and underdeveloped. This article provides a critical review of the currently available research tools. All have potentially fatal handicaps which have not been identified in previous reviews, the most serious of which is the conflation of severity of a violent incident with the outcome in terms of injury.