Are health professionals getting caught in the crossfire? The personal implications of caring for trauma victims

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 568-572

  Crabbe, Jillian M ^a,c   Bowley, D M G ^b   Boffard, K D ^b   Alexander, D A ^c   Klein, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c ROYAL CORNHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BURNOUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DEPERSONALIZATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERBALIZATION; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WELLBEING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRAUMA CENTERS; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 4544229801     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.008540     Document Type: Article

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