@article{376c6c40b07b4c57b0cae549b65d214e,
title = "Police reports on domestic incidents involving intimate partners: Injuries and medical help-seeking",
abstract = "This study aims to expand knowledge of partner abuse injury and help-seeking through a new source of data. We reviewed police reports during corresponding periods in 1996 and 1997 (n = 476). Complainants were injured in 17.4% of all incidents; 90% of those injured were women. Hispanics were more likely to be injured than non-Hispanics (OR = 2.06; 95% CI = 1.0, 4.25). The likelihood of injury decreased with each year of increasing age (OR = 0.95; CI = 0.91, 0.99). Only 20.5% of those injured consented to medical care. Police reports provide information on partner abuse injury that supplements hospital surveillance and household surveys.",
keywords = "Domestic violence, Injury, Patient acceptance of health care, Police, Spouse abuse",
author = "Duncan, {Mary M.} and Stayton, {Catherine D.} and Hall, {Charles B.}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for the project was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing, Community Policing to Combat Domestic Violence Program. The authors are grateful to the police department described in this paper for its efforts on behalf of victimized women and men, and for assistance with this project. The authors are also grateful to the victim services agency collaborating on the project and to Eugene Litwak, PhD. In addition the authors thank Alice Robinson, Kathy O{\textquoteright}Loughlin, F. J. Duncan, III, DAy, and F. J. Duncan, Jr., MD, for research assistance, and anonymous reviewers for their suggestions. The authors are responsible for all errors and omissions.",
year = "2000",
doi = "10.1300/J013v30n01_01",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
pages = "1--13",
journal = "Women and Health",
issn = "0363-0242",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
}
