Pamela Clark Robbins

TL;DR: The prevalence of community violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric facilities varies considerably according to diagnosis and, particularly, co-occurring substance abuse diagnosis or symptoms.

TL;DR: Rethinking Risk Assessment as discussed by the authors is a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence.

TL;DR: Although delusions can precipitate violence in individual cases, these data suggest that they do not increase the overall risk of violence in persons with mental illness in the year after discharge from hospitalization.

TL;DR: This work proposes a classification tree rather than a main effects regression approach for actuarial violence risk assessment tools, and suggests that by employing two decision thresholds for identifying high- and low-risk cases, the use of actuarial tools to make dichotomous risk classification decisions may be further enhanced.

TL;DR: A clinically useful actuarial method exists to assist in violence risk assessment and this work aims to increase the clinical utility of the ICT method by restricting the risk factors used to generate the actuarial tool to those commonly available in hospital records or capable of being routinely assessed in clinical practice.