Health Care Staff-Reported Workplace Violence in Patient Safety Event Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Workplace violence (WPV) against health care staff is an important problem in the US and worldwide.

Objective

To develop a WPV classification approach and investigate the characteristics of the WPV incidents committed against health care staff documented in patient safety event (PSE) reports.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study analyzed 975 self-reported PSEs recorded by health care staff from March 1 to September 20, 2023, from a multihospital health care system in the mid-Atlantic region of the US.

Main outcomes and measures

A subset of PSE reports that potentially pertained to WPV incidents were identified through structured information of the reports. When available, the following information was captured from each report

SUBMITTER: Tabaie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12635879 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature