Recommended Citation
Mary D. Fan, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Joseph A. Simonetti, Vivian H. Lyons, Jin Wang, Douglas Zatzick, and Frederick P. Rivara, Violence Perpetration among Patients Hospitalized for Unintentional and Assault-Related Firearm Injury, 165 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 841 (2016), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/650
Violence Perpetration among Patients Hospitalized for Unintentional and Assault-Related Firearm Injury
Keywords
cycle of violence, firearm injuries, violence intervention programs
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Background: Hospital-based violence intervention programs typically focus on patients whose firearm injury occurred through interpersonal violence (assault). Knowledge of violence perpetration by victims of unintentional (accidental) firearm injury is limited.
Objective: To examine violence perpetration before and after a patient becomes hospitalized for firearm injury according to injury intent (intentional [assault] or unintentional [accidental]).
Measurements: In the case–control study, the odds of violence-related arrest from 2001 through hospitalization by injury intent among 3 groups were compared. In the cohort study, the rates of violence-related arrest from hospitalization through 2011 by injury intent among 3 groups were compared.