Citation

Barker A, Forshaw D, Moxom T. Health Trends 1991; 23(1): 31-32.

Affiliation

Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, H.M. Stationery Office (Great Britain))

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10113883

Abstract

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.

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