Hospital staff responses to workplace violence in a psychiatric hospital in Taiwan

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-179

  Chen, Wen Ching ^a,b   Hwu, Hai Gwo ^b,c   Wang, Jung Der ^b,c  

^a Yuli Hospital Department of Health Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hospital incident reporting; Psychiatric inpatients; Violent patients; Workplace violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; VIOLENCE; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC AIDES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; TAIWAN; VIOLENCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 67651012310     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/oeh.2009.15.2.173     Document Type: Article

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