Intimate Partner Violence and Emergency Department Screening: Computerized Screening Versus Usual Care

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 526-534

  Trautman, Deborah E ^a   McCarthy, Melissa L ^b   Miller, Nancy ^c   Campbell, Jacquelyn C ^d   Kelen, Gabor D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 33947095395     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.11.022     Document Type: Article

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