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Author ' s response to reviews Title : Workplace violence against physician and nurses in Palestinians public hospitals : A retrospective cross-sectional study Authors :
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kitaneh, Mohamad |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Report of the corrections made on the manuscript: Workplace violence against physician and nurses in Palestinian public hospitals Note: the corrections made or responses to the referees' comments are indicated in italic below each point made by the referees: I have the following minor typo and grammar corrections and notes: 1-Background; in the 4th paragraph….. "the aim" while the author mentioned more than one aim. This sentence was changed to " This study aims to assess…… ". 2-Method setting, in the 1st paragraph: the author used "west bank" while in the title he used Palestine, this might confuse the reader, and author should be consistent. The title says " Palestinian hospitals " , not Palestine. West Bank hospitals are part of the Palestinian hospitals. 3-Setting of the study; it would be useful if more details added about the public hospitals and why it was important to investigate the issue at these hospitals. This issue was investigated in public hospitals because the MoH is the main provider of care and employer of health professionals. In addition we believe, although no adequate evidence available, that violence against health workers in public hospitals is more than other sectors. These factors were mentioned in the Background paragraph 3. And in fact we used them to explain our results about high incidence of violence in the discussions. 4-Study design section: in the 1st paragraph under the inclusion criteria, the author mentioned " the licensed physicians and nurses " what does that mean? This means only staff that has finished their education, licensed for practice are |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Letter |