Telephone Follow-up for Case Finding of Domestic Violence in an Emergency Department
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منابع مشابه
Emergency department screening for domestic violence.
T o develop policies and programs to combat domestic violence, policy makers first must know who is affected and to what degree.1 This article addresses one way to obtain more information on domestic violence—through health care screening, primarily in emergency departments. The article reports how emergency department screening was conducted in two programs and what steps can be taken to overc...
متن کاملPreventive care in the emergency department: screening for domestic violence in the emergency department.
OBJECTIVES The most effective methods for identification and management of domestic violence (DV) victims in health care settings are unknown. The objective of this study was to systematically review screening for DV in the emergency department (ED) to identify victims and decrease morbidity and mortality from DV. METHODS Using the terms "domestic violence" or "partner violence," and "identif...
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OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and predictors of domestic violence victims among attenders at the emergency department at Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1991. DESIGN Cross-sectional study in which randomly selected nursing shifts were used to screen attenders. RESULTS Of all attenders at the emergency department, 14.1% disclosed a history of domestic violence. Women were more likely than...
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As the result of the current emphasis on health care cost containment, outpatient management of entities previously in the domain of inpatient therapy is being proposed. The advocates of this approach stress the importance of telephone follow-up in patients chosen for outpatient therapy. Our objective was to determine the reliability of phone follow-up in patients discharged from the emergency ...
متن کاملEmergency department response to domestic violence--California, 1992.
A 1993 national poll found that 34% of adults in the United States report having witnessed a man beating his wife or girlfriend and that 14% of women report that a husband or boyfriend has been violent with them (1). Studies suggest that as many as 30% of women treated in emergency departments (EDs) have injuries or symptoms related to physical abuse (2). A national health objective for the yea...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03553.x