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Shift workers’ health and assessing risk of violence

Shift workers’ health and assessing risk of violence

FromThe BMJ Podcast


Shift workers’ health and assessing risk of violence

FromThe BMJ Podcast

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Aug 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Daniel Hackam, associate professor at Western University in Canada, explains how shift patterns can have a detrimental effect on the vascular health of workers.
Also this week Seena Fazel, Wellcome Trust senior research fellow in clinical science at the University of Oxford, queries the predictive value of the risk assessment tools routinely used to predict violent behaviour
Released:
Aug 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.