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M S Stultz

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PubMed1996

1994 IAHSS salary, equipment, staffing and uniform survey.

Salaries of the person who heads a hospital's security department can range from $18,500 to $75,000. Security staffs can range from 5.6 FTE's to 136.8. Within these ranges, however, there are a number of factors which determine the size of salary or the makeup of staff. This section of the IAHSS 1994 crime survey provides the most recent information on those factors and the possible rationales behind them. In addition, it provides the latest data on what equipment, including guns and other weapons, is carried by hospital security officers, as well as reporting on current uniform preferences. Eleven charts are included.

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PubMed1994

Crime in hospitals 1992--the latest IAHSS survey.

The latest IAHSS annual survey, for 1992, has been expanded to include responses by foreign hospitals and to make available state-by-state comparisons. The highlights of this study, presented here, reveal a number of continuing trends featured in the 1987-1991 studies, as well as some significant new trends. Some 32 tables are included.

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PubMed1993

Crime in hospitals 1986-1991--the latest IAHSS surveys.

Highlights of the results of the annual IAHSS surveys on crime in hospitals for 1990 and 1991 are reviewed. Additional information is presented in 19 tables. These include a table comparing survey results for the years 1986-1991, plus detailed tables on 1991 results in selected categories.

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Emergency room security: commonsense measures.

The author discusses how a highly trained, multidisciplinary health care team can defuse ER confrontations and prevent the occurrence of violent incidents. He provides examples from the ER setup at Stanford University Medical Center.

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Crime in hospitals 1993--the latest IAHSS survey.

Increases in violent crimes, ranging from 3% to 26%, and decreases in burglary and theft, ranging from 1% to 26%, highlight the 1993 crime survey. The latest survey also sheds new light on state-by-state crime incident reporting. An increase in crime activity in rural-area hospitals was reported in 1993, the first time in eight years their rate equaled or surpassed the rate in urban/suburban locations. Some 35 Tables and Graphs are included.

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Crime in hospitals 1995--the latest IAHSS survey.

Overall crime in hospitals participating in the tenth annual IAHSS survey increased by 7% in 1995 versus 1994. On a per-hospital basis, five crime categories showed increases--murder, suicide, physical assault, sexual assault, and theft (except auto). Six categories showed decreases--robbery, arson, burglary, auto thefts, bomb threats, and vandalism. While crime in urban/suburban hospitals in 1995 leveled off after a sharp increase reported for 1994 over 1993, rural hospitals showed a 9% increase in crime in 1995 over the previous year. The 1995 crime rate was 11% higher than the preceding eight-year average, with physical assault 36% higher than the eight-year average, and sexual assault 88% higher on a per-hospital basis. Some 38 Tables and Graphs are included.

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1995 IAHSS salary, equipment, staffing and uniform survey.

This second part of the 1995 IAHSS annual Crime Survey provides information on security director salaries, security department staffing, and types of equipment and uniforms employed. Factors that may or may not affect salaries are explored--including the influence of hospital size and the differences between proprietary and contract status. Differences in the size of security staffs by bed size and the relative use of police officers in security are covered. The survey also reports on trends in the type of security equipment used by hospitals--including guns, stun guns, pepper spray, and Mace. New data on the use of police uniforms or blazers by security personnel are presented. Ten charts are included.

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The 1997 IAHSS survey--crime in hospitals.

As useful as the IAHSS crime surveys conducted between 1987 and 1996 have been in demonstrating to JCAHO, AHA, and others about the nature and scope of crime in healthcare facilities, problems in data compilation that have caused concern about the survey format have resulted in a number of changes in the 1997 survey. Readers are cautioned that what seems to be a drop in crime in some of the categories in the 1997 survey may well be the result of changes in definition of these categories. More years of data will have to be accumulated before valid comparisons can be made.

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The 1996 IAHSS crime survey.

The 1996 IAHSS crime survey, whose publication was delayed because of data compilation problems, is the last to be conducted under the old computer program. Data for this survey have been re-entered and tables from the survey for individual categories are presented for review.

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