Violence against doctors: 1. A study of violence against doctors in accident and emergency departments
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- Accident and Emergency Department, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait.
Abstract
The risk of violence directed at health care professionals in their working environment has aroused widespread concern in recent years. Clinical areas most associated with violence are accident and emergency departments, psychiatry, and general practice. Surveyed physicians reported rates of violence against them to vary from 54% to 79%. Violence, however, is difficult to quantify and there is wide variation between the severity of incidents recorded by different workers. This study was an attempt to measure the incidence and the severity of violence against doctors in accident and emergency departments in Kuwait. Eighty-seven (86%) out of 101 of our doctors reported having experienced verbal insults or imminent threat of violence; in addition, 28% had also experienced physical attacks, and 7% had experienced physical assaults likely to have caused serious or fatal injury. Similarly, out of a total of 781 violent incidents reported by our doctors, 73 involved physical attacks, and eight involved physical assaults likely to have caused serious or fatal injury.
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