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Improving risk assessment in forensic mental health: temporal validation and clinical refinement of the FoVOx risk tool

2026-01-22 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundForensic psychiatric services are expanding in many countries, and discharging patients from secure hospitals relies on accurate estimates of risk of adverse outcomes. Novel evidence-based tools for estimating one key risk, violent reoffending, have been developed in recent years. We aimed to externally validate one new tool, FoVOx, in forensic psychiatric patients sentenced to treatment, and to develop an updated model (FoVOx2), incorporating additional clinical predictors. MethodsUs...

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