Becker's Healthcare May 10, 2023
Workplace violence against nurses and healthcare workers has increased at rates that experts say are “alarming.” Often, rates of violence are even higher for healthcare professionals who work in emergency departments, but new technology may be able to reduce these instances.
Using machine learning technology, researchers trained models on electronic health record data to build a tool that helps detect signs of violence before it occurs. The training dataset included 1,215 workplace violence cases and 6,044 nonviolence cases.
The research published in the May 2023 issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing found that the model was able to achieve a 95 percent confidence rate in predicting workplace violence based on emergency department visit and stay factors.
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