Employees in EDs report increasing role overload because of critical staff shortages,
budgetary cuts and increased patient numbers and acuity. Such overload could compromise …

Understanding the physiological effects of responding to crises is a critical component in
understanding how to manage and prepare medical professionals to be crisis responders …

Pain is a primary symptom driving patients to seek physical therapy, and its attenuation
commonly defines a successful outcome. A large body of evidence is dedicated to …

The understanding of stress and its impact on human performance is crucial to mitigate
human error in the face of a threat. This is especially the case for critical incidents on a ship …

Although the predatory stress experimental protocol is considered more psychological than
the restraint protocol, it has rarely been used to study the effect of psychological stress on …

Aims: To compare stress scores, serum cortisol and serum homocysteine levels, and BP of
CSC patients with that of control population and to correlate stress scores of CSC patients …

Background Job satisfaction is recognized as an important factor affecting the performance
and quality of medical services of emergency department physicians. However, little is …

Purpose The aim of this study was to describe and compare salivary cortisol of ambulance
personnel on days with different work demands as well as to correlate the individual …

Purpose The occupation of the emergency physicians (EPs) of helicopter emergency
medical services (HEMS) can be characterized as a high-strain occupation (Karasek in Adm …

Objectives To examine the prevalence of effort-reward imbalance and explore its associated
factors among emergency department physicians in China. Methods A cross-sectional …