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Pokorny's complaint: the insoluble problem of the overwhelming number of false positives generated by suicide risk assessment

Alex Pokorny's 1983 prospective study of suicide found that 96.3% of high-risk predictions were false positives, and that more than half of the suicides occurred in the low-risk group and were hence false negatives. All subsequent prospective studies, including the recent US Army Study To Asses...

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Autores principales: Nielssen, Olav, Wallace, Duncan, Large, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28184312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.053017