Characteristics of staff victims of patient assault: Ten year analysis of the Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP)

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 237-248

  Flannery Jr , Raymond B ^a,b,d,e   Stone, Phyllis ^c   Rego, Stephany ^c   Walker, Andrew P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Department of Mental Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Tewksbury Hospital   (United States)

^d Assaulted Staff Action Program   (United States)

^e Department of Mental Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assaulted staff action program; Crisis intervention; Emergency mental health; Patient assaults; Staff victims

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; CRIME VICTIMS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MASSACHUSETTS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL DOWNSIZING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035458445     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010349015108     Document Type: Article

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