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Study Shows Online Education Improves Physician Response to Domestic Violence

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, March 29th, 2007

Physicians are more likely to recognize, validate, assess and respond to suspected domestic (intimate partner) violence in their patients after participating in an Internet course on the subject, according to new study results reported this week at the National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence in San Francisco, CA.

In the new report from Medical Directions, Inc., 645 California physicians who took the "Respond to Domestic Violence" online continuing medical education (CME) program, a comprehensive course on intimate partner violence (IPV), were surveyed following its completion to determine how it will affect the management of IPV in their practices. 79...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2007-03-29)

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