You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 10, Issue 2
  • A hospital based violence prevention intervention reduced hospital recidivism for violent injury and arrests for violent crimes

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Treatment
A hospital based violence prevention intervention reduced hospital recidivism for violent injury and arrests for violent crimes

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.10.2.50

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Cooper C, Eslinger DM, Stolley PD. Hospital-based violence intervention programs work. J Trauma 2006;61:534–7.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Q In victims of violence who are on parole or probation, can a hospital based violence prevention intervention reduce hospital recidivism for violent injury and arrests for violent crimes?

    METHODS

    Embedded ImageDesign:

    randomised controlled trial.

    Embedded ImageAllocation:

    unclear allocation concealment.

    Embedded ImageBlinding:

    unblinded.

    Embedded ImageFollow up period:

    median 1–2 years.

    Embedded ImageSetting:

    hospital trauma centre in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

    Embedded ImagePatients:

    100 patients ⩾18 years of age (median age <30 y, 96% men) who were admitted to hospital for an injury related to a violent assault for at least the second time and were on parole or probation in the criminal justice system.

    Embedded ImageIntervention:

    56 patients were allocated to the Violence Intervention Programme (VIP), which involved meetings with a social or case worker at least every 2 weeks to devise …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Dr C Cooper, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. ccooper{at}umm.edu

    • Source of funding: not stated.