Health care practitioners' responsibility to address intimate partner violence related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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¹ Department of Surgery (Bradley, DiPasquale), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Department of Critical Care Medicine (Bradley), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Surgery (Dillabough) and Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences (Schneider), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alta.
² Department of Surgery (Bradley, DiPasquale), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Department of Critical Care Medicine (Bradley), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Surgery (Dillabough) and Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences (Schneider), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alta. prism.schneider@albertahealthservices.ca.

Nori L Bradley et al. CMAJ. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 1;192(22):E609-E610.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200634. Epub 2020 May 1.

¹ Department of Surgery (Bradley, DiPasquale), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Department of Critical Care Medicine (Bradley), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Surgery (Dillabough) and Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences (Schneider), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alta.
² Department of Surgery (Bradley, DiPasquale), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Department of Critical Care Medicine (Bradley), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Surgery (Dillabough) and Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences (Schneider), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alta. prism.schneider@albertahealthservices.ca.

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