Physician Staffing and Patient Violence

Harold Carmel
Harold Carmel
From the Atascadero Clinical Safety Project, Atascadero State Hospital, the Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto.
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Elizabeth Decker Tanke
Elizabeth Decker Tanke
From the Atascadero Clinical Safety Project, Atascadero State Hospital, the Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto.
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and Jerome A. Yesavage
Jerome A. Yesavage
From the Atascadero Clinical Safety Project, Atascadero State Hospital, the Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto.
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Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
March 1991,
19
(1)
49-51;

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.

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Physician Staffing and Patient Violence

Harold Carmel

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Elizabeth Decker Tanke

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and Jerome A. Yesavage

Jerome A. Yesavage

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online

Mar 1991,

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(1)

49-51;

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Physician Staffing and Patient Violence

Harold Carmel

Harold Carmel

Elizabeth Decker Tanke

Elizabeth Decker Tanke

and Jerome A. Yesavage

Jerome A. Yesavage

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online

Mar 1991,

19

(1)

49-51;

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