Journal article
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