TY - JOUR
AU1 - Drummond, Alan
AU2 - Chochinov, Alecs
AU3 - Johnson, Kirsten
AU4 - Kapur, Atul
AU5 - Lim, Rod
AU6 - Ovens, Howard
AB - Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (2021) 23:758–761 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-021-00182-z C AEP POSITION STATEMENT & GUIDELINES 1,2 3 4 1 5 6 Alan Drummond  · Alecs Chochinov  · Kirsten Johnson  · Atul Kapur  · Rod Lim  · Howard Ovens Received: 27 April 2021 / Accepted: 19 July 2021 / Published online: 5 August 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP)/ Association Canadienne de Médecine d’Urgence (ACMU) 2021 Keywords Violence in the Emergency Department · Emergency Medicine · Workplace violence Definition this year [4] including over 50% of those working in the ED [10–15]. Over half of ED nurses are physically or verbally Workplace violence occurs when a person is physically abused in any given week [10, 11]. The Canadian Federa- or verbally abused, threatened, intimidated, harassed or tion of Nurses Unions (CFNU) reported in 2017 that “the assaulted in her or his employment. In Canada, employees number of violence-related lost-time claims for frontline have the right to a safe work environment, and it is the duty health care workers has increased by almost 66% over the of the employer to provide it [1]. past decade, three times the rate of increase for police and correctional service officers combined” [8 ]. It is 
TI - CAEP position statement on violence in the emergency department
JF - Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine
DO - 10.1007/s43678-021-00182-z
DA - 2021-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/caep-position-statement-on-violence-in-the-emergency-department-0P5cnZwx8Z
SP - 758
EP - 761
VL - 23
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -