The occupational and psychosocial impact of SARS on academic physicians in three affected hospitals

Psychosomatics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 385-391

  Grace, Sherry L ^a,b   Hershenfield, Karen ^a   Robertson, Emma ^a   Stewart, Donna E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL ALIENATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 32944456645     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.46.5.385     Document Type: Article

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