Screening for human trafficking in one emergency department: Social acceptance and practical dissonance

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
² Primary Care Development Corp, New York, New York, USA.
³ Clinical Research Manager in Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.

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Meg Smirnoff et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Feb.

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. 2022 Feb;29(2):234-237.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14383. Epub 2021 Sep 27.

¹ Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
² Primary Care Development Corp, New York, New York, USA.
³ Clinical Research Manager in Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine and the Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA.

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1. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-386), reauthorized by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2003 (P.L. 108-193), the TVPRA of 2005 (P.L. 109 164), and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (WW-TVPA) of 2008 (P.L. 110-457) and the TVPRA of 2013 (P.L. 113-4).
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