Risk of Intimate Partner Homicide Among Caregivers in an Urban Children's Hospital.

JAMA Pediatr

Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, Missouri.

Published: January 2019

This study examines the risk of intimate partner homicide among adults in pediatric health care settings.

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