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Published Online: August 1989

Weapon Carrying Among Patients in a Psychiatric Emergency Room

Allan A. Anderson, A. Y. Ghali, and Rakesh K. BansilAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 40, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.40.8.845

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Weapon carrying is not a rare event among patients seen in psychiatric emergency services, and apparently no characteristics can effectively predict which patients carry weapons. Screening for weapons would make psychiatric services sections safer for both patients and staff.

To preserve the balance between patients' civil rights and public safety, an electronic sensing device might be used to alert security to the presence of a weapon carried by a patient entering an emergency room. Such devices generally are effective at sensing the types of weapons that were found in our study. Electronic screening of all patients would allow unobtrusive discovery of most weapons that patients carry.

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 40 • Number 8 • August 1989

Pages: 845 - 847

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Published in print: August 1989

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Allan A. Anderson

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A. Y. Ghali

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Rakesh K. Bansil

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Eastern Shore Mental Health Clinic in Nassawadox, Virginia

Department of Psychiatry at the New Jersey Medical School, East Orange (N.J.) Medical Center

Adult Services at the Community Mental Health Center in Newark

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P.O. Box 912, Nassawadox, Virginia 23413

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Weapon Carrying Among Patients in a Psychiatric Emergency Room

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