Health care providers' experience reporting child abuse in the primary care setting

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 489-493

  Flaherty, Emalee Gottbrath ^a,b   Sege, Robert ^c   Binns, Helen J ^a,b   Mattson, Christine L ^a   Christoffel, Katherine Kaufer ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Northwestern Memorial Foundation   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATION; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEGLECT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; VICTIM;

EID: 0034027464     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.154.5.489     Document Type: Article

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