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Prevalence and Characteristics of Violence Against Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

2023-07-17

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Violence against paramedics has been described as a ‘serious public health problem’ but one that remains ‘vastly underreported’, owing to an organizational culture that stigmatizes reporting – hindering efforts at risk mitigation in addition to creating a gap in research. Leveraging a novel reporting process developed after extensive stakeholder consultation and embedded within the electronic patient care record,...

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Literature Corpus work: e96a8da5-d513-53e0-a552-0ee4579ee72f
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202307.1037.v1

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