Hospital security and safety management
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Hosp Secur Saf Manage · Feb 1995
Special report. Violence in hospitals: new facts and approaches to a growing threat.
Evidence of increasing violence in hospitals across the United States is both anecdotal and statistical. In this report, we'll review some recent surveys and attempt to pinpoint the nature of such violence, where in the hospital it is most likely to occur, and who commits or is victimized by it. We'll also report on some actual cases of violence and give some advice from hospital security directors on what can be done about it.
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Hosp Secur Saf Manage · Jun 1994
Special report. TB and health care workers: the challenge for hospitals and their safety directors.
New federal regulations seeking to prevent tubercular infection of health care workers have created conflicts between unions and hospital administrators over the best and cheapest methods of reducing the threat. Though there has been dispute over the particulars, there has been little argument that some steps must be taken, particularly in urban areas, to control the spread of a disease that has rebounded in new and deadly forms in recent years. Most agree that one of the most effective ways to avoid infection is to train employees to identify new hospital arrivals who are likely to have active cases of TB.