Nurses' Inclination to Report Work-Related Injuries: Organizational, Work-Group, and Individual Factors Associated with Reporting

Workplace Health and Safety

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 213-217

  Brown, Jeanne Geiger ^a   Trinkoff, Alison ^a   Rempher, Kenneth ^a   McPhaul, Kathleen ^a   Brady, Barbara ^a   Lipscomb, Jane ^a   Muntaner, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; RISK MANAGEMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 25144455057     PISSN: 21650799     EISSN: 21650969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/216507990505300505     Document Type: Article

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