TY - JOUR
T1 - An emergency medicine approach to violence throughout the life cycle
AU - Muelleman, Robert L.
AU - Reuwer, John
AU - Sanson, Tracy G.
AU - Gerson, Lowell
AU - Woolard, Bert
AU - Yancy, Arthur H.
AU - Bernstein, Edward
PY - 1996/7
Y1 - 1996/7
N2 - This document by the SAEM Public Health and Education Committee outlines the public health impact of interpersonal violence as it pertains to acute emergency care. This paper provides an overview of violence through the life cycle (i.e., child abuse, youth violence, intimate violence, and elderly abuse). It also makes specific recommendations regarding the role emergency physicians can play in reducing violence through medical education, research, surveillance, public education, advocacy, and clinical practice.
AB - This document by the SAEM Public Health and Education Committee outlines the public health impact of interpersonal violence as it pertains to acute emergency care. This paper provides an overview of violence through the life cycle (i.e., child abuse, youth violence, intimate violence, and elderly abuse). It also makes specific recommendations regarding the role emergency physicians can play in reducing violence through medical education, research, surveillance, public education, advocacy, and clinical practice.
KW - SAEM position paper
KW - injury
KW - special contribution
KW - trauma
KW - violence
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03496.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03496.x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 8816188
AN - SCOPUS:0030036343
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 3
SP - 708
EP - 715
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 7
ER -