Inside Pandora's Box

This book examines health care providers' experiences with screening for woman abuse at a hospital's triage unit in Eastern Ontario. Health care provider views on the utility of the Emergency Department's screening tool, the resistance to, and barriers associated with applying the tool, and associated Emergency Department protocol are explored. A feminist, woman-centered, medical-model approach guided the data collection, analysis and explanation. This study presents suggestions for maintaining an abuse screening tool, and presents areas for future research including policy implications