Short communication: A comparative study of organizational stress in three hospitals in Ankara, Turkey

Stress and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-197

  Sarp, Nilgün ^a   Yarpuzlu, Ayşegül Akbay ^a   Önder, Ömer Rifki ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Executive stress; Health care workers; Organizational stress

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 24644508544     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1055     Document Type: Article

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