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 CleryPublished 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.