Journal article
Education is not enough: A systems failure in protecting battered women
Annals of emergency medicine, v 18(6), pp 651-653
1989
PMID: 2729689
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Abstract
A retrospective study of female trauma patients presenting in an emergency department during 1976 and 1977 demonstrated that the introduction of a protocol designed to detect injuries caused by battering increased the identification of battered women from 5.6% of female trauma patients to 30%. An eight-year follow-up study in the same ED demonstrated that only 7.7% of female trauma patients were diagnosed as having injuries secondary to battering. This study suggests that without institutional policies and procedures for detecting and treating victims of domestic violence, many abused women will pass through EDs unidentified and, hence, untreated.
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- Title
- Education is not enough: A systems failure in protecting battered women
- Creators
- Susan V McLeer - York College of PennsylvaniaA.H. Rebecca Anwar - Department of Emergency Medicine, The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USASuzanne Herman - York College of PennsylvaniaKevin Maquiling - York College of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Annals of emergency medicine, v 18(6), pp 651-653
- Publisher
- Mosby, Inc
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1989U786000009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0024413304
- Other Identifier
- 991019184211304721
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