Clinician safety.

Clinician safety is a serious concern for health care professionals because of the great risk of violence in health care workplaces, especially emergency and mental health departments. Assaults on mental health staff are often encountered from patients who are intoxicated with, or suffering withdrawal symptoms from, substances. Additionally, violence toward mental health professionals is frequently encountered from patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, personality disorders, learning disabilities, and mental retardation. Incidents of assault are often ignored by victims and administrators. Administrators must implement several measures to prevent clinician assault.

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Psychiatric Clinics of North America

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/s0193-953x(05)70134-9PMID 10623979
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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