Violence in the Accident and Emergency Department.

Workplace Violence: A Regional Survey in Iranian Hospitals’ Emergency Departments

Background and Objectives: Violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. This type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac‌tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...

Assessment of Musculoskeletal Injuries from Domestic Violence in the Emergency Department

Domestic violence is one of the most common causes of nonfatal injury in women, with musculoskeletal injuries representing the second most prevalent manifestation of this form of violence. It is therefore of great importance that healthcare providers such as emergency department (ED) physicians and surgeons are able to recognize and assess these kinds of injuries. In this case report, a woman i...

Support for victims of assaults and domestic violence: are accident and emergency departments doing enough?

Trends in community violence in England and Wales 1995-1998: an accident and emergency department perspective.

OBJECTIVES To identify overall, seasonal, sex and age specific national trends in community violence from an accident and emergency (A&E) department perspective. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective collection of national violence data from a stratified random sample of 33 A&E departments in England and Wales. METHODS Data were analysed for the three years from May 1995 to April 1998. Time series...

Investigation of violence against emergency nurses in a referral university hospital in Southern Iran

Introduction: Today, the incidence of violence such as verbal violence physical violence, including battering, sexual harassment is defined conflicts, especially in work environments around the world. The aim of this study was to investigate violence against emergency department nurses of Shahid Mohammadi hospital in Bandar Abbas. Methods: This study was a cross - sectional descriptive study wh...

Frequency of the Type of Workplace Violence against Hamadan Medical Emergency Technicians and its Relationship with Individual and Occupational Variables, 2018

Objectives: Medical emergency technicians are more likely to be exposed to workplace violence because exposure to emergency situations  .  This study seems to be necessary because the physical and psychological effects of the violence  Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the frequency of type of workplace violence against medical emergency technicians Hamadan province and its relati...