Violence against health care workers in China, 2013-2016: evidence from the national judgment documents

• Main Authors: Ruilie Cai (Author), Ji Tang (Author), Chenhui Deng (Author), Guofan Lv (Author), Xiaohe Xu (Author), Sean Sylvia (Author), Jay Pan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Incidents of patient-initiated workplace violence against health care workers have been a subject of substantial public attention in China. Patient-initiated violence not only represents a risk of harm to health care providers but is also indicative of general tensions between do...