Abstract

To Search or not to Search: Is There a Clinical Profile of a Patient Harboring a Weapon?

Privitera M R~~Springer M O~~Perlmutter R A

Year: 1986 Source: General Hospital Psychiatry, v.8, no.6, (November 1986), p.442-447 SIEC No: 19880233

A study was conducted over a 2-month period to identify cues or clinical factors involved in the decision to search emergency room patients. 26 patients who were searched were compared to 590 who were not searched. Of the 26 searched, 8 (30.8%) were found to have potentially harmful weapons. 62.5% of these (5) had made suicidal threats. 14 Refs. (NBB)