The relative validity of actuarial- and consensus-based risk assessment systems

By Christopher W. Baird, D. Wagner. 2000

212 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Vicki R. LeBlanc
2. M. Bogo
3. C. Regehr
4. A. Shlonsky

In Emergency Medicine

1. Vicki R. LeBlanc

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. M. Bogo
2. C. Regehr

Citations in the corpus

• Confidence and Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse (2010, result): “Postimplementation studies have yielded mixed results regarding their predictive ability (Baird et al., 2000; Camasso & Jagannathan, 2000; Cicchinelli, 1991; English & Pecora, 1994; McDonald & Marks, 1991; Pecora, 1991; Wald & Woolverton, 1990).”
• Children in the public benefit system at risk of maltreatment: identification via predictive modeling. (2013, background): “The value of clinical versus statistical prediction has been long debated in the delivery of human services,(16) including child protection.(17,18) In the case of child protection decision making, there is clear evidence that actuarial approaches are superior to clinical attempts to balance the comp”