Ward overcrowding and assaults on staff: cause and effect?

Ward overcrowding and assaults on staff: cause and effect?

Overcrowding in psychiatric wards and physical assaults on staff: data-linked longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND Patient overcrowding and violent assaults by patients are two major problems in psychiatric healthcare. However, evidence of an association between overcrowding and aggressive behaviour among patients is mixed and limited to small-scale studies. AIMS This study examined the association between ward overcrowding and violent physical assaults in acute-care psychiatric in-patient hosp...

Overcrowding in psychiatric wards and physical assaults on staff: data-linked

of its high prevalence and its likely adverse effects on the health of employees and the quality of psychiatric care. Overcrowding in wards is another well-known problem in psychiatric hospitals worldwide resulting, in part, from the dramatic decline in psychiatric in-patient beds during past decades. It typically arises when there is shortage of beds in relation to need or when acute beds are ...

Assaults on Medical, Nursing and Paramedical Staff.

There has been recently yet another account of a physical assault by a patient towards a doctor 1 . The scenario is a familiar one, a drunken male in the emergency department with a minor injury. A tirade of verbal abuse and racist slurs was followed by physical violence against the doctor. The account highlights a problem that we have lived with for a long time. One of the most difficult situa...

effect of seed priming and irrigation regimes on yield,yield components and quality of safflowers cultivars

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