To begin a program to reduce risk factors associated with violent injury, a comprehensive approach that addresses mental health and social determinants of health is critical.
This study's objectives were to determine whether, and how, prior ED visit history distinguishes assault-injured youth from unintentionally injured youth.
This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences.
Violent injury in the USA continues to represent a major public health issue. As reported this year in the American Journal of Medicine, we are 10 times more likely to be killed from violence in the USA than in any other developed country and the rate of gun-related murder is 25 times higher than 22 other high-income countries.
We describe how an integrated knowledge translation (KT) process was used to develop an ED violence intervention program (EDVIP) for youth affected by violence.
In this commentary, we describe how hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) work to translate research into practice.
In this article, we describe the panel model and present preliminary data on participants' perceptions of the process.
The Trauma Response Team was established in 2010, in collaboration with the Police Department, health care institutions, and emergency response teams and with the research support of Syracuse University faculty.
We hypothesized that the HVIP at our urban trauma center is a cost-effective means for reducing violent injury recidivism.
This study conducts a cost-benefit analysis simulation to estimate the savings an HVIP might produce in healthcare, criminal justice, and lost productivity costs over 5 years in a hypothetical population of 180 violently injured patients, 90 of whom received HVIP intervention and 90 of whom did not.
This study examines the cost-effectiveness of hospital-based VIP.
The authors address violent injury as a reccurrent problem and highlight the teachable moment that occurs after a violent injury.
The objective of this study is to assess outcomes for a cohort of young trauma patients in a prospective, randomized trial comparing BVI with BVI + CCMS.
HVIPs combine brief in-hospital intervention with intensive community-based case management and provide targeted services to high-risk populations to reduce risk factors for reinjury and retaliation while cultivating protective factors.
The goal was to assess the impact of a mentor-implemented, violence prevention intervention in reducing aggression, fighting, and reinjury among assault-injured youths.
The purposes of this study were to (1) assess receptiveness of families to violence prevention interventions initiated after an assault injury and (2) assess the effectiveness of a case management program on increasing service utilization and reducing risk factors for reinjury among assault-injured youth presenting to the emergency department.
An evaluation was undertaken to determine if a hospital-based, peer intervention program, "Caught in the Crossfire," reduces the risk of criminal justice involvement, decreases hospitalizations from traumatic reinjury, diminishes death from intentional violent trauma, and is cost effective.
We sought to operationalize the teachable moment (TM) construct and to determine whether an emergency department (ED) visit was a TM for intervention among assault-injured adolescents and their parents.
To investigate criminal and high-risk lifestyle factors that predict emergency department (ED) recidivism, a longitudinal (8-year) cohort study of ED trauma patients was conducted.
Our Violence Intervention Program (VIP) conducted a prospective randomized control study to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention for repeat victims of violence.
To assess the effect of a hospital-based peer intervention program serving youth who have been hospitalized for violent injuries on participant involvement in the criminal justice system and violent reinjury and death after hospital discharge.
This article discuss three important concepts in relation to the consequences of violence (1) premature death, (2) violence recidivism, and (3) violent criminality.
Recurrent trauma is thought to be a problem of urban areas, associated with criminal activities, but there are few data from rural areas that include the victims of nonintentional injuries.
The authors have observed two groups of assault-related injured patients at the District of Columbia General Hospital Level I urban trauma center to determine the magnitude of this phenomenon in the patient population, to examine the characteristics of such a group of patients, and to identify the risk factors that predispose to repeated assault-related injuries.
The current study therefore was carried out to determine the recurrence rate of penetrating trauma in our institution.
This study identifies this subset of trauma patients, establishes their magnitude, and analyzes mechanisms of injury and hospital courses.
Urban trauma, often presumed to be an acute episodic event, may actually be a chronic recurrent disease related to the lifestyle, environment, and other factors of its victims.