Violence, self-harm and drug or alcohol misuse in adolescents admitted to hospitals in England for injury: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Of adolescents in the general population in England, we aimed to determine (1) the proportion that has an emergency admission to hospital for injury related to adversity (violence, self-harm or drug or alcohol misuse) and (2) the risk of recurrent emergency admissions for injury in adolescents admitted with adversity-related injury compared with those admitted with accident-related injury only.

Design

We used longitudinally linked administrative hospital data (Hospital Episode Statistics) to identify participants aged 10-19 years with emergency admissions for injury (including day cases lasting more than 4 h) in England in 1998-2011. We used the Office for National Statistics mid-year estimates for population denominators.

Results

Approximately 4.3% (n=141 

SUBMITTER: Herbert A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322205 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature