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ArticleTrauma surgery & acute care open2021

Characteristics of self-inflicted injury among suicidal patients: analysis of nation-wide trauma registry.

Takeshi Nishimura, Hiromichi Naito, Atsunori Nakao, Shinichi Nakayama

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Article in Trauma surgery & acute care open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Intended and suicidal trauma to the anterior neck in Finnish young adults.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Takeshi NishimuraDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hyogo Emergency Medical Center, Kobe, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7057-2029
Hiromichi NaitoDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7308-1716
Atsunori NakaoDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
Shinichi NakayamaDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hyogo Emergency Medical Center, Kobe, Japan.
Okayama University · JPKobe Medical Center · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeSelf-inflicted injury is one of the most common causes of suicide. Extremity injury is thought to occur most frequently among penetrating injury; however, epidemiology among patients attempting suicide is unknown. This study aims to find the characteristics of penetrating self-inflicted trauma patients.

methodsThis is a retrospective cohort study of Japanese nation-wide trauma registry (the Japan National Trauma Data Bank) between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2017. Patients who attempted suicide with penetrating injury were eligible. We evaluated the occurrence of injury based on injury site (neck/face, chest, abdomen, extremity) as a dependent variable and aging as an independent variable using a generalized linear model and compare those groups with spline models.

results4576 trauma patients were eligible. Excluding patients with missing age, missing survival data, and missing abbreviate injury score, 4183 patients were enrolled in this study. Common injury site is follows: abdomen 1772 patients (42.4%), extremity 1344 patients (32.0%), neck/face 1253 patients (30.0%), and chest 993 patients (23.7%). The occurrence of neck/face injury, chest injury, and abdominal injury increased with age. On contrary, the rate of extremity injury decreased with age.

conclusionsAmong self-inflicted trauma patients, abdominal injury was the most common injury, and neck/face injury, chest injury, and abdominal injury were related with aging. On the contrary, the rate of extremity injury decreased as patients' age progressed. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Retrospective cohort study, Level III.

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abdominal injuriespenetratingsuicidewounds

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