It's common for patients to come into a hospital with injuries, but too often they're the ones inflicting injury on nurses, technicians and security guards, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed incident reports of patient violence to identify the situations most likely to lead to a physical conflict, in the hope of training hospital staff to avert the attacks. "This study is contributing to knowledge about how we can develop (patient violence) prevention," Judith Arnetz told Reuters Health. "This is a project that is very much in collaboration with hospital stakeholders and that means both labor and management," said Arnetz, a researcher with the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit who led the new study
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