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Characteristics of repeat trauma patients, San Diego County.

Author(s) -

Barry Hedges,

Joel E. Dimsdale,

David B. Hoyt,

Cherisse Berry,

K Leitz

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.85.7.1008

Subject(s) - medicine , occupational safety and health , injury prevention , poison control , suicide prevention , demography , emergency medicine , family medicine , medical emergency , pathology , sociology

Data on 22,312 admissions to the San Diego County Trauma System were used to identify 185 trauma patients admitted repeatedly to trauma units. These patients were compared with the entire group of nonrepeating trauma patients admitted during the 80-month period of the study. In comparison with nonrepeaters, the repeaters were younger, were more often men, were more often Black, and were much more frequently victims of assault. Forty-eight percent of the repeaters were injured by the same general mechanism on both admissions.

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