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Injuries from assaults on paramedics and firefighters in an urban emergency medical services system.
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In this paper, a descriptive study involving retrospective analysis of an occupational injury database was conducted to determine the nature and frequency of injuries resulting from assaults on paramedics and firefighters in a large, fire department-based emergency medical services (EMS) system.About:
This article is published in Prehospital Emergency Care.The article was published on 2002-10-01. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emergency medical services & Injury prevention.read more
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Health status in the ambulance services: a systematic review
TL;DR: Several indicators suggest that workers in the ambulance services experience more health problems than the general working population and workers in other health occupations.
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Occupational injuries among emergency medical services personnel.
TL;DR: The injury rates for EMS workers are higher than rates reported by DOL for any industry in 2000, and funding and additional research are critical to further defining the high risks to EMS workers and developing interventions to mitigate this serious problem.
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A pilot study of workplace violence towards paramedics
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that workplace violence is prevalent for paramedics and highlights the need for prevention and education within the profession and lays the foundation for further studies investigating paramedic experience of workplace violence.
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Paramedic Self-reported Exposure to Violence in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Workplace: A Mixed-methods Cross-sectional Survey
Blair L. Bigham,Jan L Jensen,Walter Tavares,Ian R. Drennan,Humaira Saleem,Katie N. Dainty,Glenn Munro +6 more
TL;DR: The majority of Canadian paramedics surveyed experience violence in the workplace, which can lead to serious personal and professional sequellae, and strategies should be devised and studied to reduce violent events toward paramedics and to mitigate the impact such events have on the wellbeing of paramedics.
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Violence toward health care workers in emergency departments in west Turkey.
TL;DR: It is recommended that training to deal with violence in the workplace be specifically targeted at members of staff who are most likely to be at risk of threats of violence and actual physical aggression.
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Violence in the emergency department: a survey of health care workers
Christopher M.B. Fernandes,F Bouthillette,Janet Raboud,Linda Bullock,Colleen F. Moore,Jim Christenson,Eric Grafstein,S. Rae,Lawrence Ouellet,C Gillrie,M Way +10 more
TL;DR: Violence in the emergency department is frequent and has a substantial effect on staff well-being and job satisfaction, and physical exercise, sleep and the company of family and friends were the most frequent coping strategies.
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Emergency department violence in United States teaching hospitals
TL;DR: A preventative, risk-management approach that addresses environmental factors, training policies, restraint, security arrangements, and legal precedents is suggested.
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Violence against emergency medical services personnel
TL;DR: Emergency medical services providers in some areas are at substantial risk for encountering violence in the prehospital setting and certain situational factors may be used to predict the risk of encountering violence.
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Exposure of prehospital care providers to violence.
TL;DR: By their own report, EMS providers encounter a substantial amount of violence and injury due to assault on the job, and formal training and protocols to provide a standardized safe approach for such encounters are lacking.
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Violence and threats of violence experienced by public health field-workers.
TL;DR: To assess frequency of violent threats and incidents experienced by public health workers and risk factors associated with incidents, self-administered questionnaires were taken from Texas sexually transmitted disease, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immuno-AIDS, and tuberculosis programs.