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Any ED note documenting security presence or calls was abstracted as a text snippet. Hospital security data logs were also queried for the same time frame and summarized. Data were analyzed from February to November 2024.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Outcomes included type and quantity of hospital security calls to the ED. A deductive quality analysis was performed with the goal of assessing current clinical documentation practices as an initial step toward improvement. The deductive coding of text snippets began with 10 codes, including verbal threats, physical aggression, and elopement.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Over the 2 years, hospital security had 9288 clinical support encounters in the ED (mean, 12.7 encounters per day). The parent electronic health record abstraction study included 334 patients, of which 244 patients (73.1%) had hospital security involved in their care and so were included in this analysis (146 men [59.8%]; mean [SD] age, 34.5 [13.6] years). Among the study subset, 135 patients (55.3%) were brought to the ED by police. Security was most often called for physical violence (82 patients [33.6%]). De-escalation attempts occurred by ED staff for 29 patients (11.9%) and security personnel for 17 patients (7.0%). Theme 1 was safety: patient-on-patient violence was a new finding: \u201c...this patient stood up out of her chair, ran over to another patient and started punching another patient.\u201d Theme 2 was patients who are unwilling or unable to adhere to the care plan. Disagreement with disposition plans or medical care was a frequent trigger of violence. Theme 3 was that de-escalation attempts were not well documented. \u201cSecurity called to bedside\u2026 [nurse] able to talk patient down at this time.\u201d Theme 4 included legal issues: security assisted with the disposal of illicit substances and use of security body cameras to document patient belongings.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions<\/jats:title>In this study, security teams contributed to the safety of ED staff and patients. 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