Authors
Monahan, JohnSteadman, Henry J.
Appelbaum, Paul S.
Grisso, Thomas
Mulvey, Edward P.
Roth, Loren H.
Robbins, Pamela Clark
Banks, Steven M.
Silver, Eric
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PsychiatryDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2006-12-16Keywords
Antisocial Personality DisorderConfidence Intervals
*Decision Support Systems, Clinical
*Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Humans
Interview, Psychological
Likelihood Functions
Patient Discharge
Personality Assessment
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Assessment
*Software
Software Design
Violence
Psychiatry
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Show full item recordAbstract
The Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) is an interactive software program designed to estimate the risk that a person hospitalized for mental disorder will be violent to others. The software leads the evaluator through a chart review and a brief interview with the patient. At the end of this interview, the software generates a report that contains a statistically valid estimate of the patient's violence risk-ranging from a 1% to a 76% likelihood of violence-including the confidence interval for that estimate, and a list of the risk factors that the program took into account to produce the estimate. In this article, the development of the COVR software is described and several issues that arise in its administration are discussed.Source
Behav Sci Law. 2006;24(6):721-30. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1002/bsl.725Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45747PubMed ID
17171769Related Resources
Link to Article in PubMedae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/bsl.725