International Journal of Nursing Studies
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 15-20 , January 2012

Nursing staff numbers and their relationship to conflict and containment rates on psychiatric wards—A cross sectional time series Poisson regression study

  • Len Bowers

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 20 7848 5323.
    • ,
  • Martin Crowder

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Received 9 May 2011 ,Revised 4 July 2011 ,Accepted 8 July 2011.

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PII: S0020-7489(11)00269-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.07.005

International Journal of Nursing Studies
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 15-20 , January 2012

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