@article{ref1,
title="Emergency medical service personnel's risk from violence while serving the community",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2017",
author="Maguire, Brian J. and O'Neill, Barbara J.",
volume="107",
number="11",
pages="1770-1775",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To determine the risks of violence-related injury among emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in the United States. <br><br>METHODS: We analyzed 1630 violence-related occupational injury cases reported to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for the years 2012 to 2015 and conducted secondary searches within the Bureau of Labor Statistics Web site. <br><br>RESULTS: The number of cases per year varied between 250 and 560. Perpetrators included patients (77%) and coworkers (8%). Female EMS personnel had a disproportionately greater risk of violence-related injuries. The most common (35%) injury type was &quot;sprains-strains-tears&quot;; about 4% of the assault cases resulted in fractures, 13% resulted in surface wounds, and 190 were head injuries. About a third of the cases were classified as intentional. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate a clear need for reliable interventions. The differences in risk for women indicate that some interventions may need to be demographic-specific. Because of the limitations of national data, future researchers will need access to agency-level data that include hours worked and call volume by demographic factors such as gender. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print September 21, 2017: e1-e6. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.303989).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="10.2105/AJPH.2017.303989",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303989"
}