ON To develop these Guidelines, the FVPF partnered with advisors from the National Health Care Standards Campaign on Domestic Violence: a coalition of health care providers, public health and policy leaders, and domestic violence advocates from 15 states working to promote improved health care responses to victims of abuse. The FVPF also invited the Advisory Committee from the 1999 Preventing Domestice Violence: Clinical Guidelines on Routine Screening to be reviewers. Advisory Committee members worked assiduously to develop and revise the Guidelines. These recommendations reflect the combined decades of their experience in the field as well as results from current research