Review of research methods used to investigate violence in the emergency department

An Association Between Occupancy Rates in the Emergency Department and Rates of Violence Toward Staff

“…The two previous studies describing rates of violent acts were prospectively designed research studies. With a restricted amount of information capable of being obtained from record-based retrospective studies, our study would most likely have a lower incident capture rate by design alone (41). Of the approximately 1200 incidents identified on preliminary searches, 278 cases met criteria for inclusion, with a number of cases being excluded for vague or inconclusive documentation within the report.…”

Violence in the emergency department: An ethnographic study (Part I)

“…How does the nurse-patient intercultural communication impact on violence in the ED? Background Violence in the emergency department (ED) remains inadequately investigated as most studies (Brookes and Dunn, 1997;Fernandes etal., 1999Fernandes etal., , 2002Mayer et al, 1999;Erickson and William-Evans, 2000;Crilly et al, 2004) are descriptive in nature which concentrates on factual issues such as prevalence and types of violence (Lau and Magarey, 2006). Although these studies have provided important preliminary information, they failed to reveal the important relationships among various factors that precipitate violence (i.e.…”

An integrative literature review of interventions to reduce violence against emergency department nurses

“…2002, Armstrong 2006); and emergency department nurses (EDNs) are one of the highest‐risk nursing specialties (Catlette 2005, Gates et al. 2006, Lau & Magarey 2006, Ryan & Maguire 2006, International Council of Nurses 2007). A broad and inclusive definition of violence by Perrone (1999) is used in this review: a spectrum of behaviours ranging from passive aggression to homicide.…”