Workplace violence against healthcare workers in the emergency department - a 10-year retrospective single-center cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical staff are regularly confronted with workplace violence (WPV), which poses a threat to the safety of both staff and patients. Structured de-escalation training (DET) for Emergency Department (ED) staff has been shown to positively affect the reporting of WPV incidents and possibly reduce its impact. This study aimed to describe the development of incidence rates, causes, means, targets, locations, responses, and the time of WPV events. Additionally, it explored the effect of the staff trained in DET on the objective and subjective severity of the respective WPV events.

Methods

In a retrospective, single-center cohort study, we analyzed ten years of WPV events using the data of Staff Observation Aggression Scale-Revised (SOAS-R) score (ranging from 0 to 22)

SUBMITTER: Benning L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11403778 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature