Temporal and geographic patterns of stab injuries in young people: a retrospective cohort study from a UK major trauma centre.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the epidemiology of assaults resulting in stab injuries among young people. We hypothesised that there are specific patterns and risk factors for injury in different age groups.

Design

Eleven-year retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Urban major trauma centre in the UK.

Participants

1824 patients under the age of 25 years presenting to hospital after a stab injury resulting from assault.

Outcomes

Incident timings and locations were obtained from ambulance service records and triangulated with prospectively collected demographic and injury characteristics recorded in our hospital trauma registry. We used geospatial mapping of individual incidents to investigate the relationships between demographic characteristics and incident timing

SUBMITTER: Vulliamy P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231558 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature