National Estimates of Sexual Violence Treated in Emergency Departments

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-217

  Saltzman, Linda E ^a   Basile, Kathleen C ^a   Mahendra, Reshma R ^a   Steenkamp, Malinda ^b   Ingram, Eben ^a   Ikeda, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

^b Centre for Remote Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RAPE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33846194986     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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