Relationship of restraint use, patient injury, and assaults on EMS personnel

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-212

  Cheney, Paul R ^a   Gossett, Linda ^a   Fullerton Gleason, Lynne ^a   Weiss, Steven J ^a,b   Ernst, Amy A ^a   Sklar, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

EMS; Injury prevention; Restraints

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INJURY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; URBAN AREA; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644988849     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120500541050     Document Type: Article

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