How and why community hospital clinicians document a positive screen for intimate partner violence: A cross-sectional study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Gerber, Megan R ^a   Leiter, Karen S ^a   Hermann, Richard C ^b   Bor, David H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOOD DISORDER; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WAITING ROOM; ANAMNESIS; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 29244464833     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-6-48     Document Type: Article

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