Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 285-290 , May 2010

Development of a sexual assault evidence collection kit – The need for standardization in Turkey

  • M.R. Gökdoğan

      Affiliations

    • Kırklareli University, Health College 39020, Kırklareli, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mobile: +90 532 739 94 02.
    • ,
  • J. Bafra

      Affiliations

    • Istanbul University, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Department of Social Science, Istanbul, Turkey

,Accepted 26 July 2009.

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☆ The Research Fund of the Istanbul University supported this work. Project No. UDP-377/26082004. The content of this article was presented at the 5th BMLA Congress, 6–9 October 2004, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

PII: S0260-6917(09)00151-8

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.07.015

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