Victimization from physical violence in Pennsylvania: Prevalence and health care use

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1052-1058

  Forjuoh, Samuel N ^a,d   Kinnane, Janet M ^a,c   Coben, Jeffrey H ^a,b,d   Dearwater, Stephen R ^a,d   Songer, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department, Pennsylvania; Health care use; Injury; Physical violence; Prevalence; Victimization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030699280     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03679.x     Document Type: Article

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