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Civil Commitment in the Psychiatric Emergency Room: I. The Assessment of Dangerousness by Emergency Room Clinicians

Critics of the dangerousness standard for civil commitment contend that there is no professional standard for the evaluation of dangerousness. We used Three Ratings of Involuntary Admissibility, a reliable Index of behavioral indicators of danger to self, danger to others, and grave disability, and...

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Published in:Arch Gen Psychiatry
Main Authors: Segal, Steven P., Watson, Margaret A., Goldfinger, Stephen M., Averbuck, David S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1988
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7325725/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3395204
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800320064008
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