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Table 3 Description of the reported critical workplace incidents posing a risk for the patient and the health care worker (HCW), categorized by type of situation

From: Health care workers’ experiences of workplace incidents that posed a risk of patient and worker injury: a critical incident technique analysis

Type of critical incident (71)

Violence or threat (37)

- Patient threatening or violent (27)

- Close relative threatening or violent (5)

- Other threatening situation (5)

Moving and manual handling of patients (30)

- Patient falls or nearly falls (20)

- Equipment and external environment (6)

- Other situation (4)