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- Title
Analysis of Intentional and Unintentional Injuries Caused by Firearms and Cutting/Piercing Instruments Among Providence Youth, Nov 2004-Dec 2007.
- Authors
Ranney, Megan L.; Verhoek-Oftedahl, Wendy; Rommel, John; Mello, Michael J.
- Abstract
The article offers a study which aims to deal with the lack of published data on trends of youth violent injury and the need for additional data on risk factors in Providence, Rhode Island. It evaluates the distribution of intentional and unintentional injury from weapons among youth in the city, the links and predictors of violent injuries, and accuracy of emergency departments (ED) coding of violent injury. The study shows that a standardized violent-injury registry may be the most accurate way in gathering accurate, comprehensive data on the characteristics of injured youth and injury circumstances.
- Subjects
PROVIDENCE (R.I.); RHODE Island; YOUTH &; violence; YOUTH'S injuries; WOUNDS &; injuries; WEAPONS; EMERGENCY medical services; MEDICAL emergencies; RESEARCH methodology
- Publication
Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 2009, Vol 92, Issue 6, p200
- ISSN
1086-5462
- Publication type
Article