Patient Violence Incidence Rates

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Department of State Hospitals (DSH)-wide Violence Data Annual Rates of Assault from 2010-2020 for the following groups: Patient Assault (A2), Staff Assault (A4). A2 - Patient physical assaults are committed by another patient. Formally defined as “Aggressive Act to Another Patient - Physical: Hitting, pushing, kicking or similar acts directed against another individual to cause potential or actual injury.” This does not include verbal assault, which is coded as “A1.” A4 – Staff physical assaults are committed by a patient. Formally defined as “Aggressive Act to Staff - Physical: Hitting, pushing, kicking, or similar acts directed against a staff person that could cause potential or actual injury.” This does not include verbal assault, which is coded as “A3.” Please Note: 1.Please note that it is an update to the previously published dataset with additional datasets. 2.Violence Rates value (in previous publication) can be calculated as a number per 1000 Patient Days. This number is easily interpreted and enables more accurate comparisons across time. 3.Prior to January 1, 2016 DSH-Atascadero coded an assault as Patient on Staff (A4) only when physical contact was made between patient and staff. All other Department of State Hospitals (DSH)- facilities code an assault as Patient on Staff (A4) either when physical contact was made or when physical contact was attempted. On January 1, 2016 Department of State Hospitals (DSH)--Atascadero began coding assaults in the same manner as all other Department of State Hospitals (DSH)- facilities. 4.Prior to January 1, 2016 Violence incidents were not captured specifically as Physical Contact made or Physical Contact Attempted.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 test_dsh-violence-data-wqrxyr.zip https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/6d16cea1-dfc3-49cf-bd33-79400ee2541b/resource/8cb104b4-84e3-4f00-aab7-4e056d655c1e/download/test_dsh-violence-data-wqrxyr.zip
57 test_dsh-violence-data-fek9b4g_.zip https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/6d16cea1-dfc3-49cf-bd33-79400ee2541b/resource/8cb104b4-84e3-4f00-aab7-4e056d655c1e/download/test_dsh-violence-data-fek9b4g_.zip
8 Patients treated is the total number of patients treated across all state hospitals annually. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/6d16cea1-dfc3-49cf-bd33-79400ee2541b/resource/e17824f4-4d24-4d2e-a80d-6319cf0a641d/download/total-patients-treated-by-year.csv
8 Total Patient Days is the total number of days that the patient population (with Legal Classes: LPS, MDSO, IST, SVP, NGI, PC2684, MDO, DJJ) of all hospitals were in residence for the given year. This is used to calculate the rate of violence over a period e.g. per 1000 days. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/6d16cea1-dfc3-49cf-bd33-79400ee2541b/resource/0b95b24d-357a-4efd-bdcd-6438999d4cf0/download/total-patients-days-by-legal-class.csv
8 Department of State Hospitals (DSH)-wide Violence Data Annual Rates of Assault from 2010-2020 for the following groups: Patient Assault (A2), Staff Assault (A4). A2 - Patient physical assaults are committed by another patient. Formally defined as “Aggressive Act to Another Patient - Physical: Hitting, pushing, kicking or similar acts directed against another individual to cause potential or actual injury.” This does not include verbal assault, which is coded as “A1.” A4 – Staff physical assaults are committed by a patient. Formally defined as “Aggressive Act to Staff - Physical: Hitting, pushing, kicking, or similar acts directed against a staff person that could cause potential or actual injury.” This does not include verbal assault, which is coded as “A3.” Please Note: 1.Please note that it is an update to the previously published dataset with additional datasets. 2.Violence Rates value (in previous publication) can be calculated as a number per 1000 Patient Days. This number is easily interpreted and enables more accurate comparisons across time. 3.Prior to January 1, 2016 DSH-Atascadero coded an assault as Patient on Staff (A4) only when physical contact was made between patient and staff. All other Department of State Hospitals (DSH)- facilities code an assault as Patient on Staff (A4) either when physical contact was made or when physical contact was attempted. On January 1, 2016 Department of State Hospitals (DSH)--Atascadero began coding assaults in the same manner as all other Department of State Hospitals (DSH)- facilities. 4.Prior to January 1, 2016 Violence incidents were not captured specifically as Physical Contact made or Physical Contact Attempted. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/6d16cea1-dfc3-49cf-bd33-79400ee2541b/resource/714ceebc-4410-4773-b291-869578de07d7/download/incidence-data-2010-2020.csv

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  • combined-patient-and-staff-assault
  • assaults
  • staff-physical-assault
  • california-department-of-state-hospitals
  • violence
  • patient-physical-assault

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