Patient reported outcomes 6 to 12 months after interpersonal violence: A multicenter cohort study

Manuel Castillo-Angeles1, Juan P Herrera-Escobar, Alexander Toppo

  • 1From the Division of Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, (M.C.-A., J.P.H.-E., A.S., A.H.H., D.N.), Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery (M.C.-A., J.P.H.-E., A.T., A.S., A.H.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (M.C.-A., J.P.H.-E., A.T., A.S., A.H.H.); Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (S.E.S.), Boston University School of Medicine; and Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (H.M.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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