title: Domestic violence: a health concern.
abstract: Domestic violence may be the single most common etiology for injuries in women presenting to the health care system. There is a national effort to begin to ask all female patients about family violence. Physicians have a responsibility to identify, educate and appropriately manage and/or refer patients in violent relationships.
authors.affiliation: IU Community Child Abuse Projects, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Von Burg
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Hibbard
mesh_terms: D018585:Battered Women; D017579:Domestic Violence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking