Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:751-752
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Videotape recording of inpatient assaults: a pilot study
DA Brizer, ML Crowner, A Convit and J Volavka
Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, Ward's Island 10035.
Inpatient assaults were videotaped and then characterized by tape reviewers
as showing high or low hostility. Over a 2-month period, the videotape
reviewers documented more than twice as many high-hostility assaults as
were documented by other methods of reporting.
