Describing visible acute injuries: development of a comprehensive taxonomy for research and practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little literature exists classifying and comprehensively describing intentional and unintentional acute injuries, which would be valuable for research and practice. In preparation for a study of injury patterns in elder abuse, our goal was to develop a comprehensive taxonomy of relevant types and characteristics of visible acute injuries and evaluate it in geriatric patients.

Methods

We conducted an exhaustive review of the medical and forensic literature focusing on injury types, descriptions, patterns and analyses. We then prepared iteratively, through consensus with a multidisciplinary, national panel of elder abuse experts, a comprehensive classification system to describe these injuries.

Results

We designed a three-step process to fully describe and cl

SUBMITTER: Rosen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5633584 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature