The Aggressive Risk Assessment Tool is a simple, easy-to-use assessment tool with acceptable inter-rater reliability, sensitivity and specificity that may be useful for prospectively identifying violent patients in medical-surgical units.
The M55 does not appear to be useful for prospectively identifying violent patients in medical-surgical units because of low sensitivity. Older, male or Caucasian patients had higher odds of becoming violent.
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