According to the Observatory Against Aggressions of the General Council of Medical Associations, every 10 hours a doctor is attacked in Spain.
The General Council of Physicians (CGCOM) has presented today the data on attacks on registered doctors during 2022, figures that break the historical record with 843 violent actions communicated to medical colleges, which is a 38% more than the previous year (231 more than in 2021). The total figure since 2010 reaches 6,492 attacks.
Dr. José María Rodríguez Vicente, General Secretary of the Council and member of the National Observatory of Aggressions, has been in charge of presenting the data within the first European day of attacks on health personnel that has had representatives of other medical orders of the Union European.
Of all the attacks suffered on 61% correspond to womena fact that consolidates the trend of recent years in which women suffer most of these violent actions.
43% of the registered aggressions are concentrated in the area of the primary care,”a percentage that, although experiencing a decrease at the national level, is not homogeneous in all the autonomous communities”, they point out from the General Council of Medical Colleges. They sit behind Hospitals, which rose five points and stood at 27%, ahead of Hospital Emergencies (9%) and Primary Care Emergencies (8%).
Regarding the types of attacks suffered by medical professionals, the Observatory points out that in 84% of the cases there were insults and threats, mostly women, while the remaining 16% were assaults that ended in physical injuries, suffered by 56% women and 44% men. It is worth noting the increase registered in injuries (+3%).
“Of all the aggressions received and reported ended in sick leave 10% of the same”, point out from the Council.
Ms dates. Two out of ten assaults are not related to medical care or care issues. Within this “structural” area, the time to be attended stands out with 64.3%, followed by a malfunction of the center (24%) and that related to the Covid-19 protocols (11.7%).
Among the care causes, once again the main one is discrepancy with the medical care received, which stands at 53%. Personal discrepancies (13.8%) are also reasons for aggression; not prescribing what was proposed by the patient (12.4%), what was related to temporary disability (10.6%) and, finally, reports not in accordance with the claims (9.9%).
With respect to type of exercise in which the attacks occurred, data similar to those of previous years are also maintained with a clear preponderance of the public exercise (89%) over the private one (11%). Of all the attacks, 95.1% occur during working hours and in the work environment. In the distribution by age, the report highlights that the largest increase by age range It has occurred among the youngest members (less than 35 years of age) who already represent a quarter of those attacked (25.4%).
Another fact that the 2022 report highlights and that continues with the upward trend of previous years is that more and more professionals receive support from the workplace. Specific in 2021 67%six points more than the previous year, a figure that marks a new record.
Refering to type of aggressorsthe data shows that they are mainly scheduled patients (48%), followed by unscheduled patients (28%) and accompanying persons (22%).
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