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Screening Is Not Enough

Kathryn E. Moracco, PhD, MPH; Thomas B. Cole, MD, MPH

JAMA. 2009;302(5):568-570.

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Physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of women by their intimate partners is common around the world.¹ In response to this widespread public health problem, organizations of health care professionals, including the American Medical Association² and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists³ recommend that all adult female patients be asked routinely about abuse, regardless of their presenting symptoms. However, evidence-based guides to clinical preventive services, such as the US Preventive Services Task Force⁴ and the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care,⁵ have concluded that there is insufficient evidence of health benefits to abuse survivors to recommend for or against screening for intimate partner violence (IPV), primarily due to methodological weaknesses of available studies.

In this issue of JAMA, MacMillan et al⁶ address this lack of evidence in the report of a trial that randomized women presenting for care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dr Moracco). Dr Cole is Contributing Editor, JAMA.

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