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Intimate partner violence against women: To screen or not to screen in the emergency department?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Andrew Worster*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ont

Abstract

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Type
Commentary • Commentaire
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2004

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