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Test Your Hospital Safety and Security Knowledge with These 9 Questions

The correct answer is: b) Emergency departments

2012 study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine looked at all U.S. hospital shootings between 2000 and 2011 in which at least one person was injured. It identified 154 incidents in 40 states causing death or injury to 235 people.

Of those incidents, 29% occurred in emergency departments, 23% in parking lots, and 19% in patient rooms.

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