BACKGROUND Hospitalisation for adversity-related injury (violent, drug/alcohol-related, or self-inflicted injury) has been described as a "teachable moment", when intervention may reduce risks of further harm. Which adolescents are likely to benefit most from intervention strongly depends on their long-term risks of harm. We compared 10-y risks of mortality and re-admission after adversity-rela...

Citation: Gunter TD (2016) Physician Death by Suicide: Problems Seeking Stakeholder Solutions. Arch Depress Anxiety 2(1): 020-025. DOI: 10.17352/24555460.000010 020 Researchers continue to struggle with case definition because the distinction between accidental death by self-inflicted injury and intentional death by self-inflicted injury is arbitrary, raising the concern that accidental death i...

OBJECTIVES The aim of our diagnostic accuracy study Child Abuse Inventory at Emergency Rooms (CHAIN-ER) was to establish whether a widely used checklist accurately detects or excludes physical abuse among children presenting to ERs with physical injury. DESIGN A large multicentre study with a 6-month follow-up. SETTING 4 ERs in The Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 4290 children aged 0-7 years at...

107 THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-EXISTING PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS ON RECOVERY IN BURN INJURY PATIENTS: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOSIS AND DEPRESSION On the basis of the hypothesis that burn patients with a co-morbid psychiatric illness would have poorer outcomes in recovery from their injuries than patients with equivalent burn injuries but without preexisting psychiatric illness, 190 consecutive admissions to a ...

Aim: To study the prevalence and response to needle-stick injuries in a tertiary care hospital. Study design: Cross-sectional Place duration of study: Dept. Gen. Surgery, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar from 01-06-2020 30-06-2022. Methodology: One hundred ninety three healthcare workers were recruited, including doctors, medical students, nurses, student nurses paramedics. Results: There 60(...

The purpose of this study was to examine the current patterns of head trauma associated with child abuse. We reviewed the records of all patients admitted to our medical center between 1995 and 1997 with a primary diagnosis of head trauma, and analyzed the clinical presentation, mechanism of injury, socioeconomic status and outcome for these patients. Head trauma was deliberately inflicted in 3...

OBJECTIVE Although inflicted skeletal trauma is a very common presentation of child abuse, little is known about the perpetrators of inflicted skeletal injuries. Studies exist describing perpetrators of inflicted traumatic brain injury, but no study has examined characteristics of perpetrators of inflicted skeletal trauma. METHODS All cases of suspected child physical abuse evaluated by the c...

OBJECTIVES To compare the presentation of young children with abdominal trauma caused by high-velocity accidental (HVA), low-velocity accidental (LVA), and inflicted injury, and to test the hypothesis that a delay in care is highly predictive of an inflicted injury. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review at an urban Level I pediatric trauma center between 1991 and 2001 of children ...