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Routine primary care screening for intimate partner violence and other adverse psychosocial exposures: what’s the evidence?

Abstract

BackgroundFamily physicians and other primary care practitioners are encouraged or expected to screen for an expanding array of concerns and problems including intimate partner violence (IPV). While there is no debate about the deleterious impact of violence and other adverse psychosocial exposures on health status, the key question raised here is about the value of routine screening in primary care for such exposures.DiscussionSeveral …

Authors

McLennan JD; MacMillan HL

Journal

BMC Primary Care, Vol. 17, No. 1,

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

December 2016

DOI

10.1186/s12875-016-0500-5

ISSN

1471-2296