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Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated with Physical and Nonphysical-Only Intimate Partner Violence
Health Services Research, 03/19/09

Bonomi AE et al. - Mental health utilization was significantly higher for women with physical or nonphysical abuse only compared with never-abused women—with the highest use among women with ongoing abuse. Physically abused women also used more emergency department, hospital outpatient, primary care, pharmacy, and specialty services; for emergency department, pharmacy, and specialty care, utilization was the highest for women with ongoing abuse. Total annual health care costs were higher for physically abused women, with the highest costs for ongoing abuse, followed by recent and remote abuse. Women with recent nonphysical abuse only had annual costs that were 33 percent higher than nonabused women.