Universal screening in the emergency department for intimate partner violence would consume scarce resources without improving patient well-being

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ⁴ Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ⁵ Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ¹¹ Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹³ Survivor Self Defence, Halton, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁵ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. sherbino@mcmaster.ca.
• ¹⁶ McMaster Education Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT) Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. sherbino@mcmaster.ca.
• ¹⁷ Emergency Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. sherbino@mcmaster.ca.