Trends in admissions to hospital involving an assault using a knife or other sharp instrument, England, 1997–2005

Maxwell, Roy; Trotter, Caroline; Verne, Julia; Brown, Paul; Gunnell, David

doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdm018

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“…This does not reflect the experience of general clinical practice in which stab injuries are mostly experienced at the weekends (2,10). The findings in our study confirm this general trend and indeed demonstrate a considerable weekend peak.…”

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confidence: 63%

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Assault Induced Stab Injuries: Epidemiology and Actual Treatment Strategy.

El-Abdellati

Messaoudi

Hee

2011

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 63%

“…In the literature, young middle aged men (range : 30.5-35 years) represent the majority of stab wound presentations (2)(3)(4)(7)(8). In our study, 90% of our patients had indeed an age of 43 years or less.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 45%

Assault Induced Stab Injuries: Epidemiology and Actual Treatment Strategy.

El-Abdellati

Messaoudi

Hee

2011

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

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“…Maxwell et al showed that while in a single year from April 2004 to March 2005, 4891 patients were admitted to hospital in England with an assault-related stabbing injury, there were only 139 deaths in 2004 due to assault from a sharp object 36. This figure of 35 victims requiring hospital treatment for every homicide fits in with an estimated range of 20–40 for youth violence internationally 37.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: population-based study

Leyland

Dundas

2010

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were to explore the extent of the social gradient for deaths due to assault and its impact on overall inequalities in mortality and to investigate the contribution to assault mortality of knives and other sharp weapons.DesignAn analysis of death records and contemporaneous population estimates was conducted.SettingThe authors investigated the social patterning of homicide in Scotland.ParticipantsThis study included deaths between 1980 and 2005 due to assault.Main measurementsDeath rates were standardised to the European standard population. Time trends were analysed and inequalities were assessed, using rate ratios and the slope index of inequality, along axes defined by individual occupational socioeconomic status and area deprivation.ResultsAn increase in mortality due to assault was most pronounced at ages 15–44 and was steeper among assaults involving knives. The death rate among men in routine occupations aged 20–59 was nearly 12 times that of those in higher managerial and professional occupations. Men under 65 living in the most deprived quintile of areas had a death rate due to assault 31.9 times (95% CI 13.1 to 77.9) that of those living in the least deprived quintile; for women, this ratio was 35.0 (4.8 to 256.2). Despite comprising just 3.2% of all male deaths between 15 and 44 years, assault accounted for 6.4% of the inequalities in mortality.ConclusionsInequalities in mortality due to assault in Scotland exceed those in other countries and are greater than for other causes of death in Scotland. Reducing mortality and inequalities depends on addressing the problems of deprivation as well as targeting known contributors, such as alcohol use, the carrying of knives and gang culture.

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“…The number of formal admissions to hospital for violent assaults involving a stabbing increased by 30% over the period 1997e2005 (Maxwell et al, 2007); yet problems of interpretation in such data on hospital-treated knife wounds remain (see Hughes, 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%