Sexual assault: Review of a national model protocol for forensic and medical evaluation

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 878-883

  Young, William W ^a,b,c   Bracken, Ann C ^a,b,c   Goddard, Martha A ^a,b,c   Matheson, Sandra ^a,b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b National Evidence Collection Protocol for Sexual Assault Examination ^*  (United States)

^c New Hampshire Attorney General s Office New Hampshire Department of Justice in Concord   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COUNSELING; DNA; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HAIR; HUMAN; MALE; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; RAPE; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPERMATOZOA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0026485468     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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