Talk:Patient-initiated violence
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Hi Sam, your draft looks good. I am sending you a few suggestions via email. Cheers! Amyc29 (talk) 14:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Sam,
Here's my feedback on your article, I hope this is the right place to post it.
The page is organized well, with the exception of the "underreporting" section. I feel the "areas of high prevalence" section is a more fitting follow up to the introduction, and the "underreporting" section would be more effective immediately after the "lasting effects of violence" section. This change improves the flow of the article and in turn would improve readers' comprehension.
The verb "affects" in the introduction is a bit vague. Perhaps "directed at" or "targets" would be more clear.
Citations and cited information are very well integrated and paced. New information is presented in an effective, and not overwhelming, way.
If there are statistics available, it may be valuable to include a comparison of the percentages of physicians and nurses who experience patient initiated violence. Is violence more commonly directed at physicians, nurses, or technicians? Is a patient more likely to be aggressive towards a medical professional or towards an administrative professional, like a social worker?
In the legislation section, you list initiatives that presumably have been implemented in an effort to minimize patient initiated violence. Was there legal action or public scrutiny that prompted these changes? Adding background would strengthen the section.
Overall I think you present interesting statistics in a well organized way, and you do a good job maintaining a consistent voice and neutral viewpoint throughout the article. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about my feedback. Take care! - Shannon Scmalany (talk) 20:40, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Potential duplicate
[edit]There is considerable overlap with Workplace_safety_in_healthcare_settings. This was renamed, partly I think to exclude the violence and abuse carried out by doctors, or their involvement in violent interactions. The name hear (patient-initiated violence) achieves something similar - albeit in the same manner as the literature. It might be interesting to note that the best predictor of patient violence is nonconsual treatment, followed by unsolicited touching. But this is an aside.
We might like to merge the articles. I would like to call the article "abuse in healthcare settings" on the grounds of clarity and not perpetuating the health researchers linguistic games. If it is the case that all violence in healthcare is entirely initiated by patients, against polite and unsuspecting healthcare workers due to permanent character flaws in the patient I imagine this can be made clear in the article.