@article{ref1,
title="Predictors of imminent violence in psychiatric inpatients",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica",
year="1995",
author="Linaker, Olav M. and Busch-Iversen, H.",
volume="92",
number="4",
pages="250-254",
abstract="Behavior and symptoms seen in 48 24-h periods preceding violent episodes and 93 control observations were studied. Six behaviors were more common before violence: confusion, irritability, boisterousness, physical threats, verbal threats and attacks on objects. A logistic regression equation based on these behaviors in a randomized half of the observations predicted the occurrence of subsequent violence in 92.1% of the other half of the sample without any false positives, giving a sensitivity of 81.3% and a specificity of 100%. It is concluded that mentally ill people display the same behaviour before violent acts as we would expect in people without such disorder. The potential for short-term prediction of violence seems good.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-690X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}