Workplace Violence in the Health Care Facility

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In the world different countries workplace violence definition varies in socio-political contexts. The difficult thing for analysis is inexistence of similar definition of workplace violence...

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical Journal of Scientific and Technical Research

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2574-1241']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26717/bjstr.2021.36.005826