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Assaults by Patients Against Psychiatric Residents at a Public Psychiatric Hospital
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Most of the assaults were committed by psychotic, male, young adults, but only male sex and age less than 13 years were statistically associated with increased risk of assaultiveness, and diagnosis and race were not associated with assaultiveness.Abstract:
Forty-six psychiatric residents at a county hospital were surveyed about their exposure to patient violence. The overall incidence of assaults was 2.8 per 100 resident-months at risk. Statistically significant differences were found in the rates of assaults on different services; the rates were highest on the child and adolescent services and lowest on the adult outpatient service. Most of the assaults were committed by psychotic, male, young adults, but only male sex and age less than 13 years were statistically associated with increased risk of assaultiveness. Diagnosis and race were not associated with assaultiveness. The usual means of attack involved hitting or kicking and seldom resulted in serious injury.read more
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Assaults by Patients on Psychiatric Residents: A Survey and Training Recommendations
TL;DR: Two-thirds of psychiatric residents are either undertrained or feel undertrained in dealing with violent patients, and the authors propose a training curriculum based on recommendations of an American Psychiatric Association task force report on clinician safety.
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Agitation in the inpatient psychiatric setting: a review of clinical presentation, burden, and treatment.
TL;DR: There remains an unmet need for a non-invasive and rapidly acting agent that effectively calms without excessively sedating patients, addresses the patient's underlying psychiatric symptoms, and is reasonably safe and tolerable.
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A survey of threats and violent acts by patients against training physicians.
TL;DR: Findings underscore a priority for developing programmes which effectively reduce threats and violence against trainees and which lessen the psychological sequelae of these incidents.
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Assaults by Patients on Psychiatric Residents at Three Training Sites
Kevin J. Black,Wilson M. Compton,Martin Wetzel,Susan Minchin,Nuri B. Farber,Devnandini Rastogi-Cruz +5 more
TL;DR: Psychiatric residents are often exposed to dangerous situations, although serious injury is rare, and the findings from the site visits pointed to two steps to increase safety: creating a weapon-free environment by searching all patients and finding ways to improve compliance with existing safety measures.
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A survey of threats and violent acts by patients against training physicians: Violence against training physicians
TL;DR: The primary purpose was to determine the prevalence of various types of threats or assaults by patients against training physicians and the psychological impact of the most distressing incidents.
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