Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 142-147 , August 2005

Workplace Violence: A Survey of Emergency Physicians in the State of Michigan

  • Terry Kowalenko, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Terry Kowalenko, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0305; 734-936-3007, fax 734-763-9298
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  • Bradford L. Walters, MD
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  • Rahul K. Khare, MD
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  • Scott Compton, PhD
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  • For the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians Workplace Violence Task Force

Received 7 April 2004 ,Revised 29 September 2004 ,Accepted 7 October 2004.

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 Supervising editor: Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MSAuthor contributions: TK and BLW conceived the study, designed the survey, and obtained research funding. TK, BLW, and SC distributed the survey and managed the data. SC provided advice on study design and analyzed the data. TK and BLW drafted the manuscript, and RKK with the other authors contributed substantially to its revisions. TK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: Sponsored by an American College of Emergency Physicians Chapter Grant to the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians Workplace Violence Task Force.Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting, Boston, MA, October 2003.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)01504-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.10.010

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 142-147 , August 2005

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