Workplace violence: How do we improve approaches to prevention?

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 659-672

  Peek Asa, Corinne ^a   Jenkins, Lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIOLENCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0346777337     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1526-0046(03)00118-3     Document Type: Review

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