Hospital shootings rare, but rate of other assults high, researchers find
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 17:31
in Health & Medicine
Shootings like the one in which a gunman shot a doctor and killed a patient at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in September are "exceedingly rare," but the rate of other assaults on workers in U.S. health care settings is four times higher than other workplaces, conclude two Johns Hopkins emergency physicians after reviewing workplace violence in health settings.