Getting Routine Intimate Partner Violence Screening Right: Implementation Strategies Used in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Primary Care

Routine primary care screening for intimate partner violence and other adverse psychosocial exposures: what’s the evidence?

BACKGROUND Family physicians and other primary care practitioners are encouraged or expected to screen for an expanding array of concerns and problems including intimate partner violence (IPV). While there is no debate about the deleterious impact of violence and other adverse psychosocial exposures on health status, the key question raised here is about the value of routine screening in primar...

Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Implications for Health Care Providers

Intimate partner violence: the end of routine screening.

Informatics Implementation in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Healthcare System to Improve Quality of Care

We describe VHA's information technology (IT) implementation from the providers' perspective, and identify factors influencing its effective implementation to improve care. We surveyed a stratified random national sample of 4227 clinicians from three VHA primary care provider groups: 1) physicians; 2) nurse practitioners, physician assistants; and 3) nurses. Facility-level IT support availabili...

Screening for Intimate Partner Violence: Applying an Environmental Health Perspective

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly being recognized as a major public health issue in the United States and internationally, representing a significant source of premature morbidity and mortality among women.1-4 Intimate partner violence adversely affects victims’ children and families and the communities in which they live.5,6 Women who experience intimate partner violence are at ...