Browsing by Subject "Risk Assessment"
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Accuracy of risk scales for predicting repeat self-harm and suicide: a multicentre, population-level cohort study using routine clinical data
(2018-04-25)Background: Risk scales are used widely in the management of patients presenting to hospital following self-harm. However, there is evidence that their diagnostic accuracy in predicting repeat self-harm is limited. Their ... -
A Clinical Feasibility Study of the Forensic Psychiatry and Violence Oxford (FoVOx) Tool
(2019-12)Background: Risk assessment informs decisions around admission to and discharge from secure psychiatric hospital and contributes to treatment and supervision. There are advantages to using brief, scalable, free online tools ... -
Dealing with categorical risk data when extracting data for meta-analysis
(2021-01)A common problem in meta-analysis of observational studies arises when the exposure variable is categorical rather than continuous. These data may be referred to as quantile or quintile data (depending on the number of ... -
Risk assessment scales to predict risk of hospital treated repeat self-harm: A cost-effectiveness modelling analysis
(2019-04-15)Risk scales are used widely for assessing individuals presenting to Emergency Departments (EDs) following self-harm. There is growing evidence that risk scales have limited clinical utility in identifying episodes at highest ... -
Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
(2014)Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is safe or how this is ... -
Unbalanced risk-benefit analysis of ADHD drugs – Authors' reply
(2018)Standardised mean differences can be difficult to translate into clinical practice. As reported in the Cochrane handbook, the mean difference (or more correctly, difference in means) measures the absolute difference between ... -
Violent outcomes in first-episode psychosis: A clinical cohort study
(2019-11)Aim Violence risk is an important part of a comprehensive clinical assessment in first‐episode psychosis. This study addresses limitations of previous violent outcome research in first‐episode psychosis, which has typically ...