Clinicians are on the front lines in caring for gunshot victims. The continuous flow of these victims to emergency departments has sparked the medical community to speak out on ways to reduce the ...
In light of high rates of workplace violence and the murder of a nurse in 2023, Connecticut lawmakers are considering ...
When EMTALA collides hospital anti-violence signs, healthcare leaders face challenges ensuring emergency care without deterring patients.
Just as healthcare workers are frustrated and burned out, so are patients who often have to wait for long periods of time for care in overcrowded waiting rooms or in patient rooms when clinicians are ...
A study showed that more than 28% of patients who exhibited violent behavior continued exhibiting that violence in subsequent healthcare settings, often beginning out-of-hospital and continuing in the ...
About 88 percent of working medical professionals have had a violent interaction with a patient in the last year, according to a recent survey from Medscape of 247 employed medical workers, including ...
A multiracial team stabilizes an injured young adult woman in the hospital emergency room. Violent encounters in the emergency department are becoming a serious issue. This month, Ann W. Latner, JD, ...
The worsening violence in health care settings is presenting providers with a vexing dilemma: How to maintain safety and security for staff and patients without creating unwelcoming, closed ...
When discussing violence toward emergency physicians, Dr. Alex Skog had to reach back into his memory just two days to pluck a story about a patient who lost it, charged an emergency room technician ...