Before and After the Trauma Bay: The Prevention of Violent Injury Among Youth

Reliability and Validity of a Two-Question Alcohol Screen in the Pediatric Emergency Department

“…14,15 These individuals are more likely to report substance use and mental health problems, highlighting a need for PED-based alcohol screening. 16,17 Although the PED is an ideal venue for alcohol screening, screening instruments must involve minimal training and implementation time to be feasible.…”

Turning Point-Rethinking Violence: A Youth Violence Reduction Intervention

“…Such alliances also have the ability to take interventions to the next level, by viewing adolescent violence as a public health epidemic and utilizing their collective "voice" to advocate for future programming efforts and public policy developments geared towards continued violence reduction. As is eloquently summarized by Cunningham et al [23], "Advocating for evidence-based policy change complements the importance of advocating for individual patients. It enables us to work upstream to prevent or minimize the high-risk environments that placed patients in our care in the first place. "…”

“…More recently, hospital-based programs have begun to address the issue of adolescent violence. Published reports from these programs suggest an increasing appreciation of the link between youth violence and healthcare costs [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Such programs include those that identify at-risk youth based upon histories of victimization by repeated violent acts and provide intensive psychosocial follow-up to decrease recidivism [21].…”

133. Self-Reported Violence-Related Outcomes for Adolescents Within Eight Weeks Of Emergency Department Treatment for Assault Injury

“…[1] EDs remain an underutilized resource for identifying adolescents at greatest risk of subsequent injury and providing violence prevention resources. [2] To improve our understanding of risks adolescent patients face and factors that may identify those most needing intervention, we pilot tested an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) survey as a way to accomplish followup research with adolescent assault-injured patients. [3] This paper presents results of patients' self-reported violence experiences following ED discharge.…”