Editing Emergency department (section)

==Violence against healthcare workers==
According to a survey at an urban inner-city tertiary care center in [[Vancouver]],<ref name="Fernandes1999" /> 57% of health care workers were physically assaulted in 1996. 73% were afraid of patients as a result of violence, 49% hid their identities from patients, and 74% had reduced job satisfaction. Over one-quarter of the respondents took days off because of violence. Of respondents no longer working in the emergency department, 67% reported that they had left the job at least partly owing to violence. Twenty-four-hour security and a workshop on violence prevention strategies were felt to be the most useful potential interventions. Physical exercise, sleep and the company of family and friends were the most frequent coping strategies cited by those surveyed.<ref name=Fernandes1999>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fernandes CM, Bouthillette F, Raboud JM, Bullock L, Moore CF, Christenson JM, Grafstein E, Rae S, Ouellet L, Gillrie C, Way M | display-authors = 6 | title = Violence in the emergency department: a survey of health care workers | journal = CMAJ | volume = 161 | issue = 10 | pages = 1245–8 | date = November 1999 | pmid = 10584084 | pmc = 1230785 }}</ref>