Patient Assaults on Staff in a Psychiatric Hospital: A Two-Year Retrospective Study
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law
- Vol. 25 (4) , 288-294
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002580248502500411
Abstract
A two-year retrospective study of patient assaults on staff in a large British psychiatric hospital was conducted. An upward trend in assaults was noted. Information on high risk locations, and high risk time periods is presented. Characteristics of both the assaultative patients and the victim population are presented and discussed.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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