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

2026-01-22

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Forensic 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...

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Literature Corpus work: e4e99203-28d0-52b7-8b6a-751b7487e017
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.20.26344471

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