title: A community meeting protocol for assault prevention.
abstract: Assaultive behavior by patients is a serious problem throughout healthcare facilities. Currently, wide variability exists in the approaches used to deal with assaultive behavior. The immediate objective of this study was to perform a consensus validation of the community meeting as a prevention and intervention measure for assault. The community meeting is a regular meeting of all staff and patients for communication, ward management, or psychiatric treatment. A delphi survey, with three iterations, was used to operationalize the collection of judgments and achieve convergence of opinion from expert respondents. A protocol for a Violence Prevention Community Meeting (VPCM) was established.
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Marilyn Lewis
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lanza
authors.forename: Lewis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kazis
authors.forename: Austin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ericsson
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*