Bloemen Elizabeth M, Rosen Tony, Clark Sunday, Nash Denis, Mielenz Thelma J
Division of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA; Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Division of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Geriatr Nurs. 2015 Jul-Aug;36(4):281-3. doi: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2015.03.002. Epub 2015 Apr 30.
We utilized the National Ombudsman Reporting System (NORS) to describe national trends in reporting of abuse and neglect in nursing facilities to long term care ombudsmen (LTCO) from 2006 to 2013. We investigated complaints made against facility staff or residents with the following codes: physical abuse, verbal/mental abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, gross neglect, and resident to resident physical or sexual abuse. Nationally, LTCO received an annual average of 11,749 abuse and neglect-related complaints in nursing homes from 2006 to 2013. These complaints trended down significantly, from 7.5 to 5.6 reports per 1000 beds (P < 0.0001). Physical abuse by a non-resident was the most frequently reported, representing an average of 28% of total abuse/neglect complaints. Improved understanding of the reasons for declines in reporting, increased training on other types of abuse and neglect, and expansion of the NORS database to allow for more comprehensive analysis are needed.
我们利用国家监察员报告系统（NORS）来描述2006年至2013年期间疗养院向长期护理监察员（LTCO）报告虐待和忽视情况的全国趋势。我们调查了针对设施工作人员或居民提出的以下投诉：身体虐待、言语/精神虐待、性虐待、经济剥削、严重忽视以及居民之间的身体或性虐待。在全国范围内，2006年至2013年期间，LTCO每年平均收到11749起与疗养院虐待和忽视相关的投诉。这些投诉显著下降，从每1000张床位7.5起报告降至5.6起报告（P < 0.0001）。非居民的身体虐待是报告最频繁的，平均占虐待/忽视投诉总数的28%。需要更好地理解报告下降的原因，加强对其他类型虐待和忽视的培训，并扩大NORS数据库以进行更全面的分析。
