Screening for childhood trauma in adult primary care patients: A cross-sectional survey

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Weinreb, Linda ^a   Savageau, Judith A ^a   Candib, Lucy M ^d   Reed, George W ^b   Fletcher, Kenneth E ^c   Lee Hargraves, J ^a  

^a Family Medicine and Community Health   (United States)

^b Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine   (United States)

^c Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENDER BIAS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SCREENING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251472405     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: 1555211X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.10m00950blu     Document Type: Article

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