Reliability of the Brazilian version of HCR-20 Assessing Risk for Violence Confiabilidade da versão brasileira do HCR-20 Assessing Risk for Violence

OBJECTIVE: Assessing risk for violence is a complex task often based on not objective or structured clinical evaluations. HCR-20 Assessing Risk for Violence has been used in several countries to increase the accuracy of this exam. The purpose of this study was to inform on central aspects of this in...

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Main Authors: Lisieux Elaine de Borba Telles, Vivian Peres Day, Jorge Oscar Folino, José Geraldo Vernet Taborda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2009-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462009000300011