RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Physician Staffing and Patient Violence
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 49
OP 51
VO 19
IS 1
A1 Carmel, Harold
A1 Tanke, Elizabeth Decker
A1 Yesavage, Jerome A.
YR 1991
UL http://jaapl.org/content/19/1/49.abstract
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.