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Physician staffing and patient violence
H Carmel1, E D Tanke, J A Yesavage
1Atascadero Clinical Safety Project, Atascadero State Hospital, CA 93423-7001.
The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
We found an inverse relation between physical aggression by patients and physician staffing--when more physicians were available, physical aggression decreased. Episodes of nonphysical aggression increased with higher levels of psychiatrist staffing, but were not related to general physician staffing.