Application and implementation of the hazard risk matrix to identify hospital workplaces at risk for violence.

Background: A key barrier to preventing workplace violence injury is the lack of methodology for prioritizing the allocation of limited prevention resources. The hazard risk matrix was used to categorize the probability and severity of violence in hospitals to enable prioritization of units for safety intervention.

Methods: Probability of violence was based on violence incidence rates; severity was based on lost time management claims for violence-related injuries.

Using database reports to reduce workplace violence: Perceptions of hospital stakeholders.

Background: Documented incidents of violence provide the foundation for any workplace violence prevention program. However, no published research to date has examined stakeholders' preferences for workplace violence data reports in healthcare settings. If relevant data are not readily available and effectively summarized and presented, the likelihood is low that they will be utilized by stakeholders in targeted efforts to reduce violence.

Worker-on-worker violence among hospital employees.

Violence toward hospital workers is an internationally recognized occupational hazard. While patients are frequently perpetrators of physical violence, other employees are often responsible for acts of nonphysical violence. However, few hospitals have systems for documenting and monitoring worker-on-worker violence.

Development and application of a population-based system for workplace violence surveillance in hospitals.

Background: A unique and comprehensive reporting and population-based violence surveillance system in a multi-site hospital system is presented.

Methods: Incidence rates and rate ratios (RR) were calculated by year, hospital, violence type, and job category in six hospitals, 2003-2008.

Results: Incidence rates per hospital for the 6-year period ranged from a low of 1.