Comprehensive medical care for victims of sexual assault: a survey of Illinois hospital emergency departments

Contraception

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 426-430

  Patel, Ashlesha ^a   Panchal, Hemang ^a   Piotrowski, Zdzislaw H ^c   Patel, Daksha ^b  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c West Suburban Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency contraception; Emergency department; HIV prophylaxis; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

EMTRICITABINE; LAMIVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; COUNSELING; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RAPE;

EID: 43349094291     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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