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Recognition of and Referral for Domestic Violence
David H. Thom, MD, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, Calif
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(7):573.
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Domestic violence has been identified as a common, and often unrecognized, problem in primary care.1,2 To investigate the recognition of and referral for domestic violence, a questionnaire was used to ask family and general practice physicians about their experiences in seeing and referring patients for problems associated with domestic violence.
A questionnaire was mailed to all identified physicians in family or general practice (N=307) in a defined geographic area of northern California. Two-hundred six (67%) of the physicians responded, 85 of whom were in practice and were interested in office-based research. The mean age of these respondents was 45 years, and 22 (26%) were female. Only this group of 85 respondents were asked about the number of patients they saw for visits associated with domestic or family violence and where they referred these patients in the previous year.
Of the 83 physicians who answered these questions, 58 (70%) reported
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