Ethical and legal considerations of artificial intelligence applications in psychiatric violence risk assessment: A scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT: Violence risk assessment is a critical component of psychiatric practice, with significant clinical, ethical, and legal implications. Psychiatric patients at high risk of violence often face interventions including restraints, intramuscular injections, and involuntary hospitalization. Agitated and aggressive behaviours from patients have been linked to high hospital costs due to increased length of stay, readmissions, increased medication use, staff injury, and need for high acuity monitoring. Traditional risk assessment tools can be time intensive and have poor generalizability to civil populations. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential for enhancing the precision of violence risk assessments. Although AI can address the technical issues of risk assessment, it

SUBMITTER: Lee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12539692 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature