Emergency department documentation of legal intervention injuries at a Washington, DC, hospital.

Kevin Xerxes DurgunNeal SikkaKevin DaveyColton HoodOmair KhokharAlana SadurMonica LabineJustin Zaslavsky

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2024)

A large proportion of nonfatal legal intervention injuries remain unreported. Black and low-income patients are disproportionately affected. More research is needed but benefits from interprofessional data sharing, injury pattern awareness, and diagnostic coding guidance may improve reporting.

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