"start assessment" is correct and usable in written English.
It may be used to initiate an assessment process. For example, "Let's start the assessment of the crime scene."
Four patients were excluded from this analysis as their first incident occurred prior to their first START assessment.
Twenty two (48%) of the remaining 46 patients were violent at least once subsequent to their first START assessment.
Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) analysis was conducted based on the first START assessment and on all assessments using SPSS Version 20.
A standard single-point ROC analysis of the predictive validity of the first START assessment and subsequent involvement in violence was conducted.
The mean scores (and standard deviation) in the first START assessment were 21.0 (8.6) for Vulnerabilities and 21.5 (7.5) for Strengths.
Following each START assessment the occurrence of a violent incident before the next START assessment or (if none) within the next 30 days was noted.
In addition a ROC analysis was conducted for all 475 START assessments across all patients to examine the relationship between START ratings and violence in the 30 days after the assessment.
US Homeland Security department officers are already in Australia and will be going to Nauru shortly to start assessments.
The median number of days between START assessments was 22 (IQR = 20.1) but in some cases there was up to four months between assessments.
Some circularity is possible as discharge decisions will be based on a range of information sources of which START assessments are only one.
There are clear limitations in terms of the relatively small sample size, reliance on imputed data to fill gaps and the variability of timescales between START assessments and between admission and entry to the study.
