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Hospital responsiveness to family violence : 12 month follow-up evaluation Koziol-McLain, Jane; Adams, Jo; Davies, Emma; Balzer, Roma; Harvey, Sue; Coben, Jeffrey H.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Auckland Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Unit, Auckland University of Technology 2006Description: 109 p. ; computer file : PDF format (1.13mb)ISSN:
  • 1177-4347
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: This report, which is one in a series that evaluates health care responsiveness to family violence, presents a 12 month follow-up of audit findings and compares these to the baseline findings of the first report (see Koziol-McLain et al, 2004). Results of the follow-up audit indicate that significant progress has been made in programme development for responding to both partner abuse and child abuse and neglect in acute care hospitals. However, most hospitals are in the early stages of programme implementation and there is still important work to be done. There was concern that 9 of the 25 hospitals being evaluated had no family violence coordinator at the time of the follow-up audit and 10 of the 25 hospitals had no child abuse programme coordinator. Even in those hospitals with programme coordinators, their sustainability is not assured. It was concluded that continued programme resourcing is necessary if appropriate intervention is to be followed by appropriate service delivery and better outcomes. The strengths and limitations of the audit are discussed.
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This report, which is one in a series that evaluates health care responsiveness to family violence, presents a 12 month follow-up of audit findings and compares these to the baseline findings of the first report (see Koziol-McLain et al, 2004). Results of the follow-up audit indicate that significant progress has been made in programme development for responding to both partner abuse and child abuse and neglect in acute care hospitals. However, most hospitals are in the early stages of programme implementation and there is still important work to be done. There was concern that 9 of the 25 hospitals being evaluated had no family violence coordinator at the time of the follow-up audit and 10 of the 25 hospitals had no child abuse programme coordinator. Even in those hospitals with programme coordinators, their sustainability is not assured. It was concluded that continued programme resourcing is necessary if appropriate intervention is to be followed by appropriate service delivery and better outcomes. The strengths and limitations of the audit are discussed.

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