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Social deprivation, ethnicity and violent incidents on acute psychiatric wards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John D. Sheehan ,
T. Hardie  and
J. P. Watson
John D. Sheehan*
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry and Psychology, UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London
J. P. Watson
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry and Psychology, UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London
*
∗ Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Eccles Street, Dublin 7, Ireland.
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Abstract

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A retrospective comparative study of violent incident forms covering the acute general adult wards at a London teaching hospital and a district general hospital was performed. Although no significant difference was observed between the overall rates of reported violent incidents, there was a significant increase in the proportion of violent incidents directed at persons in the inner city hospital. Grade 3 incidents were rare. Caribbean patients were over-represented among the perpetrators.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 10 , October 1995 , pp. 597 - 599
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995

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