Fixing broken bones and broken homes: domestic violence as a patient safety issue.

Felicia Cohn; William J. Rudman

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Fixing broken bones and broken homes: domestic violence as a patient safety issue.

March 6, 2005

Cohn F, Rudman WJ. Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2004;30(11):636-646.

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