Dealing with workplace violence in emergency primary health care: A focus group study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Morken, Tone ^a,b   Johansen, Ingrid H ^a   Alsaker, Kjersti ^a,c  

^a National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emergency care; Focus groups; Primary health care; Qualitative research; Workplace violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORKPLACE; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WORKPLACE; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

EID: 84928963175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-015-0276-z     Document Type: Article

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