Violence in Medical Sectors

Occupational Violence: Types, Reporting Patterns, and Variations between Health Sectors

Overall, the data indicate that the high-risk jobs are similar across western industrialised countries. However, the incidence varies across nation states because patterns of employment (and hence exposure), and other structural factors (such as firearms access) are diverse from one country to another, and between industry and occupational sub-groups. Organisational policies and strategies can ...

Violence against the medical profession

Incidence of violence against nurses in the educational-medical centers in Rasht

Introduction: Violence at work is considered an important risk factor worldwide. Nurses due to their presence and practice in treatment centers, direct contact with patients and also many stresses are at risk of various types of violence. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of violence against nurses working in educational-medical centers in Rasht city. Methods: This...

Growing Hierarchical Sectors on Sectors

Self-organizing maps are widely used in visual data mining. This paper proposes a new visualization approach for GHSOM algorithm, a hierarchical variant of SOM. The method is based on pie charts. That improves the visualization in hierarchical data structures making possible to extract all the existing relationships among the attributes of the neurons at any hierarchy level. The methodology is ...

violence in the emergency department: physicians, medical staff, and patients