Aggression management in a children's hospital setting

Abstract

Objectives: To describe the development, structure and implementation of a formal system of aggression management, and to document its utilisation during the first year of operation. Design and setting: A prospective audit at the Royal Children's Hospital, a major children's hospital in Melbourne. Main outcome measures: Analysis of utilisation patterns from prospective data forms augmented by retrospective review of security logs and medical records for 14 months from launch in December 2006. Results: Staff from four different clinical areas, led by an emergency consultant and a hospital administrator, made up the rostered multidisciplinary "code grey" team. Over 14 months, there were 104 in..