TY - JOUR AU - Davoren, Mary AU - Byrne, Orla AU - O’Connell, Paul AU - O’Neill, Helen AU - O’Reilly, Ken AU - Kennedy, Harry G. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/11/23 TI - Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 301 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Patients admitted to a secure forensic hospital are at risk of a long hospital stay. Forensic hospital beds are a scarce and expensive resource and ability to identify the factors predicting length of stay at time of admission would be beneficial. The DUNDRUM-1 triage security scale and DUNDRUM-2 triage urgency scale are designed to assess need for therapeutic security and urgency of that need while the HCR-20 predicts risk of violence. We hypothesized that items on the DUNDRUM-1 and DUNDRUM-2 scales, rated at the time of pre-admission assessment, would predict length of stay in a medium secure forensic hospital setting. SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0686-4 DO - 10.1186/s12888-015-0686-4 ID - Davoren2015 ER -