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Chapter 7 - Prevalence of physical violence in a forensic psychiatric hospital system during 2011–2013: patient assaults, staff assaults, and repeatedly violent patients

from Section 2 - Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2021

Katherine D. Warburton
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University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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