Screening for human trafficking in one ED: social acceptance and practical dissonance

Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, and/or obtaining of a person by the use of force, fraud, and/or coercion, for the purposes of labor and/or sexual exploitation. Trafficked individuals span all ages, genders, races, economic backgrounds, and national origins. People with a trafficking experience present to healthcare settings, especially emergency departments (ED).