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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
Volume 59, Issue 10, Pages 853-865Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22629
Keywords
type II violence; reporting violence; occupational injury surveillance; hospital workers
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- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) [R01 0009697_05]
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Background Under-reporting of type II (patient/visitor-on-worker) violence by workers has been attributed to a lack of essential event details needed to inform prevention strategies. Methods Mixed methods including surveys and focus groups were used to examine patterns of reporting type II violent events among similar to 11,000 workers at six U.S. hospitals. Results Of the 2,098 workers who experienced a type II violent event, 75% indicated they reported. Reporting patterns were disparate including reports to managers, co-workers, security, and patients' medical records-with only 9% reporting into occupational injury/safety reporting systems. Workers were unclear about when and where to report, and relied on their own threshold of when to report based on event circumstances. Conclusions Our findings contradict prior findings that workers significantly under-report violent events. Coordinated surveillance efforts across departments are needed to capture workers' reports, including the use of a designated violence reporting system that is supported by reporting policies. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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