A systematic review of the measurement of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and secondary traumatic stress in physicians.

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-44

  Nimmo, Arohaina ^a   Huggard, Peter ^b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences School of Population Health   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; physicians; Secondary traumatic stress; Systematic literature review; Vicarious traumatisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885367160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11744707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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