Reports of police calls for service as a risk indicator for intimate partner violence

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-86

  Dichter, Melissa E ^a   Rhodes, Karin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intimate partner violence; Police calls; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIGHTING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SCREENING; THREAT;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149504454     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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