But he acknowledges there is apprehension to be overcome about committing clinical judgments to print.
To give just one example, an article in the journal Psychological Assessment, analyzing dozens of studies that compared clinical judgments with data-based diagnoses, found that clinical judgments were better in only a few instances.
Psychiatric professionals say predicting violence accurately is impossible, but there are tools that help them make clinical judgments.
Sometimes they can reach better clinical judgments than human experts do.
"The clinical judgments of Wilson's test administrators support the court's analysis," he wrote.
Instead of those targets and directives that interfere with clinical judgments we'll publish the information about what actually happens in the NHS.
"Unstructured clinical judgments, just judgments of mental health professionals about how risky someone is," Dr. Otto said, "are probably the least reliable and the least accurate".
Their worry is that the pressure on hospital managers to meet central targets outweighs clinical judgments about the best interest of patients.
Mr. Keathley said the lack of interns and residents on Eleven West was a function of clinical judgments and limits to the training program, not the preferences of rich patients.
Scientists have concluded that it is most accurate to augment clinical judgments with an "actuarial" approach, in which variables like psychiatric diagnosis, history of violence and anger control are plugged into a risk assessment model.
Automated video-based analyses may afford objective measures to support clinical judgments.
