Experience of domestic violence by women attending an inner city accident and emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 180-184

  Sethi, Dinesh ^a   Watts, S ^a   Zwi, A ^b   Watson, J ^c   McCarthy, C ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c London Borough of Lewisham   (United Kingdom)

^d Camden/Islington Health Authority   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ACCIDENT; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY; INTIMACY; INTOXICATION; LIFESPAN; NURSING; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; SELF DISCLOSURE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSE ABUSE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 1542710500     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.012419     Document Type: Article

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