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Share information with patients concerning the prevalence of sexual assault and appropriate consent for sexual relationships.  |
- Provide patients with:
- Resources and referral numbers from local or national crisis agencies that discuss appropriate consent for sexual relationships for both men and women
- Materials from local or national crisis agencies describing the prevalence of sexual assault and risk factors such as alcohol use
- Information about behaviors they can adopt to decrease their chances of being sexually assaulted or becoming perpetrators of sexual assault
- Understand appropriate legal definitions of sexual assault (see American Prosecutors Research Institute State Rape Statutes).
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| Carolyn J. Sachs, MD, MPH has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. |
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for clinical judgment and does not represent an official position of
ACP. Because all PIER modules are updated regularly, printed web pages
or PDFs may rapidly become obsolete. Therefore, PIER users should
compare the date of the last update on the website with any printout
to ensure that the information being referred to is the most current
available.
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Sexual Assault
