title: Violence against women.
abstract: Violence against women has received increasing public attention over the past 20 years. The past two decades have highlighted the problem of intimate partner violence as a major cause of intentional injury to women. Many of these women present themselves to emergency departments where emergency physicians have a unique opportunity to intervene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Haywood
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haile-Mariam
mesh_terms: D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D015995:Prevalence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D016387:Women's Health