Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 6 , Pages 423-432 , November 2008

Who is Identified by Screening for Intimate Partner Violence?

  • C. Nadine Wathen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Information & Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Nadine Wathen, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, NCB254 London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7.
    • ,
  • Ellen Jamieson, MEd

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Harriet L. MacMillan, MD, MSc, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • The McMaster Violence Against Women Research Group

Received 21 December 2007 ,Revised 12 August 2008 ,Accepted 13 August 2008.

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Women's Health Issues
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