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This Canadian
study was a retrospective cohort analysis of all cases
of sexual assault seen in 1992 by the BC Women's Sexual
Assault Service for which there was police involvement
and for which a medicolegal report and information about
the legal outcome were available. Ethics approval for
the study was obtained from the University of British
Columbia Clinical Research Ethics Board and from the
BC Women's Research Review Committee (McGregor, Le,
Marion, & Wiebe, 1999, p. 1565).
The BC Women's Sexual Assault Service is operated by
the BC Women's Health Centre (part of the Children and
Women's Health Centre of BC) in partnership with the
Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Department. It
is a team of female family physicians and nurses based
in the Emergency Department of the Vancouver General
Hospital, who provide a 24-hour on-call service for
adult and adolescent victims of sexual assault. In most
cases of sexual assault for which there is police involvement,
the victim is taken to the Sexual Assault Service for
examination and treatment. The objectives of the service
are to treat the patient for the effects of the assault,
to collect evidence to give to police in cases where
the victim wants to report the assault and to provide
limited immediate and follow-up counselling. Over the
past 5 years the service has made considerable efforts
to improve physicians' ability to detect forensic evidence;
these efforts have included the purchase of a colposcope
to detect the presence of genital trauma not visible
to the naked eye (McGregor, Le, Marion, & Wiebe,
1999, p. 1565).
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Reference
| McGregor,
M. J., Le, G., Marion, S. A., & Wiebe, E. |
(1999).
Examination for sexual assault: Is the documentation
of physical injury associated with the laying of
charges? A retrospective cohort study. Canadian
Medical Association Journal, 160(11), 1565-1574.
Retrieved December 26, 2002, from the ProQuest Database.
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