Patient Risk Assessment by Interview

Current commonly used risk assessment measures are brief paper and pencil inventories to be completed by patients. These tools have limitations, however, and clinicians often need to followup with a clinical interview. This session will introduce participants to a validated risk assessment method that relies on interview data. This new risk assessment method will be reviewed in detail and data will be presented to show that it is a valid method of assessing risk in more depth than many current screening measures provide.