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ArticlePLoS medicine2004

Should health professionals screen all women for domestic violence?

Ann Taket, C Nadine Wathen, Harriet Macmillan

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Screening women for intimate partner violence in healthcare settings.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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  4. Increased awareness of intimate partner abuse after training: a randomised controlled trial.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006
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  13. Evidence-based clinical guidelines for immigrants and refugees.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2011
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  15. Utilisation of health care by women who have suffered abuse: a descriptive study on medical records in family practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2007
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  16. Intimate partner violence.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ann TaketLondon South Bank University, London, England. a.r.taket@lsbu.ac.uk
C Nadine Wathen
Harriet Macmillan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background to the debateThe US and Canadian task forces on preventive health recently declared that there is not enough evidence to recommend for or against routine universal screening of women for domestic violence. Yet some experts argue that routine enquiry is justified.

Indexed as

Domestic ViolenceMass ScreeningWomen's HealthDecision MakingEvidence-Based MedicineFemaleHumansPhysician's RolePrimary Health Care

Identifiers

PMID15526052
PMCPMC523827

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