Vaginal Bleeding and Abuse: Assessing Pregnant Women in the Emergency Department

MCN The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 182-186

  Greenberg, Edythe M ^a   Mcfarlane, Judith ^b   Watson, Mary G ^b  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; BLEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BATTERED WOMEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0031181749     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005721-199707000-00005     Document Type: Article

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