Detecting human trafficking: a life-saving diagnosis in the emergency department

Almost 90% of the survivors of human trafficking interact with healthcare professionals and emergency medicine clinicians are the first to see them most of the times. Hanni Stoklosa, an Emergency Physician in Boston, USA, tells EMJ’s Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber why and how we can detect victims of “modern day slavery". More information available at the website healtrafficking.org. Please visit the EMJ website (emj.bmj.com), where you can also read about: • "Developing a multidisciplinary approach within the ED towards domestic violence presentations" - http://emj.bmj.com/content/31/3/192. • "What factors are associated with repeated domestic assault in patients attending an emergency department? A cohort study" - http://emj.bmj.com/content/27/3/203.

• "Expectations and perceptions of care among victims of sexual assault who first seek care from emergency, primary care and gynaecological doctors" - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/2/134.