Year: 2023
Type: editorial
Abstract: Multiple indicators are consonant with the view that workplace violence in health care settings is on the rise. A 2016 report from the Government Accountability Office on “Workplace Safety and Health” concluded that “workers in health care facilities experience substantially higher estimated rates of nonfatal injury due to workplace violence compared to workers overall.”1 It was the Government Accountability Office conclusion that “additional efforts [are] needed to help protect health care workers from workplace violence.”1 Similar conclusions were arrived at by a 2020 fact sheet from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, which noted that the “incidence rate of for workplace violence to healthcare workers has increased since 2011” and that “healthcare workers accounted for 73% of all nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses due to violence in 2018.”2 It is in response to this reality that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) developed and published violence prevention guidelines for health care workers.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine
Authors: Eli Y. Adashi, Daniel P. O'Mahony, I. Glenn Cohen
Institutions: Brown University, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W36822260