Management of people who have been raped

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7387, 2003, Pages 458-459

  Wilken, Jantje ^a   Welch, Jan ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; PROGESTERONE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTRACEPTION; DEPRESSION; DNA DETERMINATION; EDITORIAL; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OVULATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUPPORT GROUP; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037374268     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.458     Document Type: Editorial

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