There is still a need to develop prevention programs that target those at highest risk for IPV-related homicide. More interventions should focus on removing deadly weapons from the home and from the possession of domestic-violence perpetrators. Physicians should inquire of their patients about IPH risk factors as well as the presence of firearms in the home. Data from the U.S. Justice Department's National Institute of Justice indicate that although IPH has declined over the past 25 years, the pattern of more women than men being killed by intimate partners has persisted. This increased risk of homicide for women in the home by an intimate partner has been linked with domestic violence, the presence of firearms in the home, and illicit drug use (Bailey et al., 1997). In their study of IPH, Paulozzi et al. (2001) estimated that 50 percent of IPH victims were killed by their legal spouses. Of the women killed by an intimate partner, 81 percent had been physically abused by the perpetrator the year prior to the homicide; 23 percent were beaten while pregnant; and 72 percent had reported victimization by harassment and stalking (Sharps et al., 2001). Researchers have noted that the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Reports have many limitations, such as "underreporting, errors in the assignment of relationships between offenders and victims, failure to identify a relationship in a significant portion of cases, and other missing information" (Paulozzi et al., 2001). 80 references