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Structured risk assessment in psychiatry

Abstract:

Background:
Current approaches to stratify psychiatric patients into groups based on violence risk are limited by inconsistency, variable accuracy, and unscalability.


Methods:
Based on a national cohort of 75 158 Swedish individuals aged 15–65 with a diagnosis of severe mental illness (schizophrenic-spectrum and bipolar disorders) with 574 018 patient episodes, we developed predictive models for violent offending through linkage of population-based registers. First, a derivation model was developed to determine strength of pre-specified criminal history, socio-demographic, and clinical risk factors, and tested it in external validation. We measured discrimination and calibration for prediction of violent offending at 1 year using specified risk cut-offs.


Results:
A 16 item model was developed from criminal history, socio-demographic and clinical risk factors, which are mostly routinely collected. In external validation, the model showed good measures of discrimination (c-index 0.89) and calibration. For risk of violent offending at 1 year, using a 5% cut off, sensitivity was 64% and specificity was 94%. Positive and negative predictive values were 11% and 99%, respectively. The model was used to generate a simple web-based risk calculator (OxMIV).


Discussion:
We have developed a prediction score in a national cohort of patients with psychosis that can be used as an adjunct to decision making in clinical practice by identifying those who are at low risk of violent offending.

Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1093/schbul/sby014.055

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Role:
Author
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Role:
Author



Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Journal:
Schizophrenia Bulletin More from this journal
Volume:
44
Issue:
S1
Pages:
S23-S24
Publication date:
2018-04-01
Event title:
Sixth Biennial Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference (SIRS 2018)
Event location:
Florence, Italy
Event website:
https://www.emedevents.com/c/medical-conferences-2018/6th-biennial-schizophrenia-international-research-society-sirs-conference
Event start date:
2018-04-04
Event end date:
2018-04-08
DOI:
EISSN:
1745-1701
ISSN:
0586-7614


Language:
English
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Abstract
Pubs id:
846631
Local pid:
pubs:846631
Deposit date:
2021-01-20

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