Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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QUANTITATIVE OUTCOMES FOR SHARED ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH: A META-ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

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Structured instruments used to track progress in forensic inpatient settings produce systematically different scores depending on whether the clinician or the patient completes them, with clinicians recording more unmet need and less progress, while the claim that shared risk assessment reduces violence or restriction still rests on no pooled quantitative evidence at all.

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