Physical assault among nursing staff employed in acute care

Work

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-200

  Rodriguez Acosta R L ^a,b   Myers, D J ^b   Richardson, D B ^a   Lipscomb, H J ^b   Chen, J C ^a   Dement, J M ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care; Cohort studies; Nurse aides; Nurses; Physical assault; Poisson regression; Surveillance; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING STAFF; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; VIOLENCE; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77649240407     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2010-0971     Document Type: Article

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