RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Recognizing and intervening in intimate partner violence
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 406
OP 422
VO 72
IS 5
A1 Kaur, Gurjit
A1 Herbert, Linda
YR 2005
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/72/5/406.abstract
AB Intimate partner violence is as prevalent as many conditions for which we routinely screen. Yet intimate partner violence remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Physicians and other health care workers are in a unique position to detect it and intervene. This article reviews what we can do, what we should do, and what we legally and ethically must do.