NcNiel D E, Binder R L
J Clin Psychiatry. 1987 Jun;48(6):230-3.
The personal characteristics of patients who brought weapons to a university hospital-based psychiatric emergency room were examined. During 14 months following implementation of a routine weapon-screening procedure, 37 (4%) of 1012 psychiatric emergency room patients were found to have weapons. These patients did not differ significantly from a randomly selected control group of non-weapon-carrying patients on a variety of demographic and clinical variables often associated with violence potential, although the weapon-carrying patients were more likely to be male and have a history of substance abuse. The heterogeneity of personal characteristics of weapon-carrying patients is likely to make them difficult to distinguish clinically from other patients. The findings have important implications for maintaining safety in the psychiatric emergency room.
对携带武器前往大学附属医院精神科急诊室的患者的个人特征进行了调查。在实施常规武器筛查程序后的14个月里，1012名精神科急诊患者中有37人（4%）被发现携带武器。在各种通常与暴力可能性相关的人口统计学和临床变量方面，这些携带武器的患者与随机选择的未携带武器的对照组患者没有显著差异，不过携带武器的患者更可能为男性且有药物滥用史。携带武器患者个人特征的异质性可能使他们在临床上难以与其他患者区分开来。这些发现对维持精神科急诊室的安全具有重要意义。
