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A National Description of Violence toward Emergency Medical Services Personnel.
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The findings may be used in education initiatives to raise awareness of the high prevalence of violence toward EMS personnel and factors associated with experiencing violence.About:
This article is published in Prehospital Emergency Care.The article was published on 2016-02-02. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control & Occupational safety and health.read more
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Violence against emergency medical services personnel: A systematic review of the literature
TL;DR: The evidence from this review demonstrates that violence is a common risk for EMS personnel and there is a lack of peer reviewed research of interventions, with the result that current intervention programs have no reliable evidence base.
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Occupational Injuries and Exposures among Emergency Medical Services Workers.
TL;DR: New and enhanced efforts to prevent EMS worker injuries are needed, especially those aimed at preventing body motion injuries and exposures to harmful substances.
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Prediction of gully erosion susceptibility mapping using novel ensemble machine learning algorithms
Alireza Arabameri,Subodh Chandra Pal,Romulus Costache,Asish Saha,Fatemeh Rezaie,Amir Seyed Danesh,Biswajeet Pradhan,Saro Lee,Nhat-Duc Hoang +8 more
TL;DR: Exploratory results indicate that the proposed GE-XGBoost model is superior to the other benchmark solution with the desired predictive precision (89.56%).
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International Survey of Violence Against EMS Personnel: Physical Violence Report
TL;DR: In order to develop and implement measures to increase safety, EMS personnel must be involved with the research and implementation process and to develop, test, and implement interventions in such a way that they can be reliably evaluated and the results published in peer-reviewed journals.
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A Systematic Review of Workplace Violence Against Emergency Medical Services Responders
Regan M. Murray,Andrea L. Davis,Lauren J. Shepler,Lori Moore-Merrell,William J. Troup,Joseph A. Allen,Jennifer A. Taylor +6 more
TL;DR: There is a great need for rigorously designed, nationally representative examinations of occupational exposures in order to better understand the temporal associations of violence, cumulative occupational stressors, and the outcomes of physical and psychosocial injuries that are occurring as a result of exposures to violence.
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TL;DR: Applied Logistic Regression, Third Edition provides an easily accessible introduction to the logistic regression model and highlights the power of this model by examining the relationship between a dichotomous outcome and a set of covariables.
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Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: A judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e., by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind, is explored.
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Internet, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method
TL;DR: The classic survey design reference, updated for the digital age as mentioned in this paper, has been used for over two decades to assist both students and professionals in effectively planning and conducting mail, telephone, and, more recently, Internet surveys.
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Internet, mail, and mixed‐mode surveys: The tailored design method
TL;DR: The Tailored Design Method as mentioned in this paper aims to achieve high-quantity and high-quality survey response by minimizing four sources of survey error (coverage, sampling, nonresponse, and measurement) and motivating respondents using features informed by scientiÞc evidence.