Boston—When a multidisciplinary group at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center started to dig deeper into a rising trend of patient-to-staff violence occurring at their institution, they discovered a naivety to the sheer volume of events.
“There are instances where a hospital worker is killed that make the news, but that’s the dramatic outlier where violence has just become part of the day-to-day culture,” said Meg Femino, senior director