PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Carmel, Harold
AU  - Tanke, Elizabeth Decker
AU  - Yesavage, Jerome A.
TI  - Physician Staffing and Patient Violence
DP  - 1991 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 49--51
VI  - 19
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/19/1/49.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/19/1/49.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1991 Mar 01; 19
AB  - 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.