Types and patterns of safety concerns in home care: staff perspectives.

Catherine K. Craven; Kerry Byrne; Joanie Sims-Gould; Anne Martin-Matthews

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Types and patterns of safety concerns in home care: staff perspectives.

December 29, 2014

Craven CK, Byrne K, Sims-Gould J, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2012;24(5):525-31.

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Through semi-structured interviews of home support workers in Canada, this study identified four intersecting types of home environment safety concerns: physical, spatial, interpersonal, and temporal.

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