Prevalence of Past Year Assault Among Inner-City Emergency Department Patients

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Cunningham, Rebecca M ^a,b,c   Murray, Regan ^a   Walton, Maureen A ^a   Chermack, Stephen T ^a   Wojnar, Marcin ^a,d   Wozniak, Piotr ^a   Booth, Brenda M ^f   Blow, Frederic C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HURLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Division of Health Services Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; COCAINE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VICTIM; VITAL SIGN;

EID: 67349263833     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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