An Emergency Medicine Approach to Violence throughout the Life Cycle

  1. Robert L. Muelleman MD1,2,*,
  2. John Reuwer MD1,3,
  3. Tracy G. Sanson MD1,4,5,6,
  4. Lowell Gerson PhD1,7,
  5. Bert Woolard MD1,8,9,
  6. Arthur H. Yancy II MD, MPH1,10,
  7. Edward Bernstein MD1,11,
  8. for the SAEM Public Health and Education Committee1

Article first published online: 29 SEP 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03496.x

Issue

Academic Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volume 3, Issue 7, pages 708–715, July 1996

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Muelleman, R. L., Reuwer, J., Sanson, T. G., Gerson, L., Woolard, B., II, A. H. Y., Bernstein, E. and for the SAEM Public Health and Education Committee (1996), An Emergency Medicine Approach to Violence throughout the Life Cycle. Academic Emergency Medicine, 3: 708–715. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03496.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    SAEM, Lansing, MI. Public Health and Education Committee (RLM, JR, TGS. LG, BW, AHY, EB)

  2. 2

    Truman Medical Center; Kansas City, MO, Department of Emergency Medicine (RLM)

  3. 3

    Washington Hospital Center Washington, DC, Department of Emergency Medicine (JR)

  4. 4

    Wilford Hall Medical Center; San Antonio, TX, Department of Emergency Medicine (TGG)

  5. 5

    Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine, Bethesda. MD, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine (TGG)

  6. 6

    University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, Department of Medicine (TGG)

  7. 7

    Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, Rootstowon, OH, Division of Community Health Sciences (LG)

  8. 8

    Brown University, Providence, RI. Section of Emergency Medicine (BW)

  9. 9

    Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, Department of Emergency Medicine (BW)

  10. 10

    Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Department of Surgery. Division of Emergency Medicine (AHY)

  11. 11

    Boston City Hospital, BUMC, Boston, MA, Department of Emergency Medicine (EB).

* University of Missouri/ Kansas, Truman Medical Center; 2301 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Fax: 816–881–6282; e-mail: 74667,440@compuserve.com

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 29 SEP 2008
  2. Article first published online: 29 SEP 2008
  3. Received: November 29, 1995; accepted: December 24, 1995; updated: February 21, 1996

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Keywords:

  • injury;
  • trauma;
  • violence;
  • SAEM position paper;
  • special contribution

ABSTRACT

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.

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