Memories From the Adriamycin-Consultants Who Have End Up Being Successful

03). Figure 1 Percentage of assaults and safety behaviors by years of experience. Only 21% of providers with less than 11 years of experience sought medical care (16/78) post-assault compared to 60% of providers with 11 or greater years of experience (37/62) (pbuy LBH589 at work; 69% (50/72) for greater than 10 years experience, 82% (27/33) for 6�C10 years experience, 67% (29/43) for 2�C5 years of experience, and 52% (15/29) for providers with less than two years of experience (p=0.05). When comparing responses by gender, 76% of females reported having feared for their safety at work (38/50) compared to 68% of males (96/142) (p=0.025) (Table). However, there was no statistical difference in reported rates of verbal abuse or physical assault by gender. There was also no difference between males and females in terms of seeking medical care at the hospital post-assault or in reporting assaults to the police. Responses were also compared by shift worked, and Pentamorphone showed that fewer assaults occurred during day shift compared to both evening and night shifts (Figure 2). Only 69% (50/72) of day-shift workers reported an assault compared to 81% of evening-shift workers (48/59) and 89% of night-shift workers (41/46) (p=0.013). Rates of reporting assaults or seeking medical care were not significantly different based on shift worked. Figure 2 Percentage of assaults and safety behaviors by Adriamycin mouse shift worked. Providers were asked to rate how safe they felt at work compared to one year prior. Sixty percent reported feeling equally safe compared to the year prior; 14% reported feeling ��somewhat unsafe;�� 4% reported feeling ��not very safe at all;�� 8% replied that they feel ��somewhat safer;�� and only 4% reported feeling ��much safer.�� DISCUSSION Violence toward prehospital providers has been described previously but recent data on the prevalence of assaults and safety behaviors is lacking.10�C15 This study found that more than two-thirds of professionals in EMS in an urban system have feared for their safety while at work, and that upwards of three-quarters of providers have been assaulted. Unfortunately, with such high frequency of violence, providers may have come to view threats and violence as ��part of the job.�� Providers may not report assaults to authorities or seek medical care unless the safety environment of each organization stresses a policy of not tolerating acts of abuse.