Unmet health care needs among children evaluated for sexual assault

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-73

  Girardet, Rebecca ^a   Giacobbe, Lauren ^a   Bolton, Kelly ^a   Lahoti, Sheela ^a   McNeese, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEXUAL CRIME; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD ADVOCACY; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 29944438796     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 10724710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.160.1.70     Document Type: Review

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