Adding injury to insult: Unfair treatment at work and occupational injury among hospital patient‐care workers
Erika L. Sabbath,
Yixin Pan,
Melissa L. McTernan
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundHospital patient‐care workers have high occupational injury rates. While physical hazards within hospital work environments are established determinants of injury, social exposures may also contribute. This study examined how reports of unfair treatment at work, a dimension of work‐related experiences of discrimination, were associated with injury among hospital‐based patient‐care workers.MethodsWe used data from the Boston Hospital Workers Health Study, a longitudinal cohort of nurses and nursing as… Show more
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