Citation

Haywood YC, Haile-Mariam T. Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 1999; 17(3): 603-15, vi.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10516841

Abstract

Violence against women has received increasing public attention over the past 20 years. The past two decades have highlighted the problem of intimate partner violence as a major cause of intentional injury to women. Many of these women present themselves to emergency departments where emergency physicians have a unique opportunity to intervene.

Language: en