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and coercive interventions. For this purpose the Broset Violent Checklist, Kennedy-Axis V,Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Scale of Dangerousness and the Social Dysfunctioning andAggression Scale were used. The hypothesis was that this Crisis Monitor model may improvequality in decision-making during the entire admission episode. All consecutively admittedpatients were included in the study (n=596). The experimental units and control-units had similarseclusion rates before randomization. In addition, reported aggression incidents in both researchclusters were comparable. At the experimental wards aggression incidents were reduced to 78%,whereas in the control wards an increase of 12% was identified. [Chi-square = 21, 3; (1)p