Preventing intimate partner violence: Screening is not enough

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 568-570

  Moracco, Kathryn E ^a   Cole, Thomas B ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCREENING; SEXUAL ABUSE; ADULT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; NOTE; PATIENT REFERRAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 68349083453     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1135     Document Type: Editorial

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