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  • Title: Predictive validity of judgments of dangerousness in emergency civil commitment.
    Author: McNiel DE, Binder RL.
    Journal: Am J Psychiatry; 1987 Feb; 144(2):197-200. PubMed ID: 3812787.
    Abstract:
    The authors investigated the predictive validity of judgments of dangerousness made in the context of emergency civil commitment. The medical charts of 101 consecutive patients involuntarily admitted to a university-based acute inpatient unit were reviewed for evidence of violence within the first 72 hours of hospitalization. More than two-thirds of the patients committed as a danger to others engaged in some type of violence, compared with fewer than one-third of other involuntary patients. The findings suggest that the emergency commitment situation permits judgments of dangerousness with a relatively high degree of short-term predictive validity.
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