Giovanni Veronesi, Marco Mario Ferrario, Emanuele Maria Giusti, Rossana Borchini, Lisa Cimmino, Monica Ghelli, Alberto Banfi, Alessandro Luoni, Benedetta Persechino, Cristina Di Tecco, Matteo Ronchetti, Francesco Gianfagna, Sara De Matteis, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Licia Iacoviello
BACKGROUND: Monitoring workplace violence (WPV) against health care workers (HCWs) through incident reporting is crucial to drive prevention, but the actual implementation is spotty and experiences underreporting. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to introduce a systematic WPV surveillance in 2 public referral hospitals in Italy and assess underreporting, WPV annual rates, and attributes "before" (2016-2020) and "after" its implementation (November 2021 to 2022). METHODS: During 2016-2020, incident reporting was based on procedures and data collection forms that were neither standardized between hospitals nor specific for aggressions...
November 13, 2023: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance