Prediction of intrahospital aggressive behaviour of psychiatric patients (scientific review). Report 2
Recent research has revealed a large number of predictors of intrahospital violent behaviour of mentally ill patients but as yet no clearly defined, explicit criteria and assessment scales have been developed, and there also exist considerable discrepancies of opinion regarding the prognostic significance of identified prognostic factors among different authors. Moreover, even if the patient's status is carefully evaluated at the time of admission to a psychiatric facility, the probability that a patient will display violent behaviour can be predicted by a physician with a very low degree of validity, which may be due in part to bias in evaluation given lack of developed criteria and scales.