Linking emergency care and police department data to strengthen timely information on violence-related paediatric injuries.

Jennifer L Hernandez-MeierZengwang XuSara A KohlbeckMichael LevasJonathan ShepherdStephen Hargarten

Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2023)

Many violence locations in ED and EMS data were not present in PD records. A combined PD, ED and EMS database resulted in new knowledge of the geospatial distribution of violence-related paediatric injuries and can be used for data-informed and targeted prevention of violence in which children are injured-especially in and around schools and parks.

Keyphrases

emergency department
mental health
healthcare
electronic health record
big data
intensive care unit
intimate partner violence
public health
emergency medical
machine learning
pain management
social media
drug induced