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