Violent Injury as a Predictor of Subsequent Assault-Related Emergency Department Visits Among Adolescents.
J Adolesc Health
; 72(6): 972-976, 2023 06.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To measure the risk of a subsequent assault-related emergency department (ED) visit in assault injured adolescents as compared to those who initially presented for non-assault related injuries.METHODS:
This was a historical cohort study of youth (ages 10-18 years) seen at two pediatric EDs between 2016 and 2019. Participants were included if their visit had an International Classification of Diseases-10 code for assaultive injury or accidental injury (motor vehicle collisions (MVC) and sports injuries). We calculated the rate of a subsequent ED visit for an assault-related injury, and then used survival analysis to compare time to subsequent ED visit with an assault-related injury between study and comparison groups.RESULTS:
A total of 6125 adolescents met inclusion criteria (Assault n = 2782, 45.4%; MVC n = 1834, 29.9%; Sports n = 1509, 24.6%). The overall rate per 100 person years of a subsequent assault-related ED visit was 5.6 (n = 344). Patients who initially presented with an assault-related injury had an increased adjusted relative risk (aRR) of return for a subsequent ED visit for an assault-related injury when compared to MVC patients (aRR 17.6 [95% CI 9.6, 32.2]). Kaplan-Meier time to event analysis found that patients in the assault injury group have a higher probability of a subsequent ED visit for an assault-related injury compared to patients in the MVC injury group (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 17.7 [95% CI 9.67, 32.42]).DISCUSSION:
Adolescents injured by assault are more likely to return to the ED for a subsequent assault-related injury compared to adolescents who initially present with non-assault-related injuries.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Wounds and Injuries
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Crime Victims
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Adolesc Health
Journal subject:
PEDIATRIA
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article