Feasibility of a screening tool for sex trafficking in an adult emergency department.

Sheri-Ann O KaltisoV Jordan GreenbaumTimothy P MoranAnwar D OsborneJessica KorniotesGrace MarazziMichael Clery

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2021)

Through the implementation of this screening tool, providers in a busy urban ED were able to identify patients with an experience of sex trafficking and offer them resources using a trauma-informed approach. This study demonstrates the feasibility of implementation of screening in the ED and identifies seven of the questions used as predictive of likely sex trafficking.

Keyphrases

emergency department
primary care
healthcare
quality improvement
dna methylation
trauma patients