How Hospitals are Tackling Violence

When asked if violence has increased at his hospital, Jason Persoff, an associate professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colo., an urban, adult, academic hospital with 850 beds, said patients are becoming increasingly outspoken and dissatisfied with care due to limited visitor access to patients, increased delays in care due to overrun hospitals, and care at the hands of some burned out clinical staff…. “Frustration and misinformation have further demoralized clinicians and simultaneously created an antagonistic relationship from time to time as patients argue about what is and isn’t scientific fact,” Persoff said.