Hospital shootings rare, but rate of other assults high, researchers find

Friday, December 10, 2010 - 02:30 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 US health care settings is four times higher than other workplaces, conclude two emergency physicians after reviewing workplace violence in health settings.

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