The critical incident inventory: Characteristics of incidents which affect emergency medical technicians and paramedics

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Halpern, Janice ^a   Maunder, Robert G ^a   Schwartz, Brian ^a,b   Gurevich, Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CRITICAL INCIDENTS METHOD; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISASTERS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE;

EID: 84864515319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-12-10     Document Type: Article

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