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ArticleThe American surgeon2022

Influence of Covid-19 Restrictions on Urban Violence.

Priti Lalchandani, Bethany L Strong, Melike N Harfouche, Jose J Diaz, Thomas M Scalea

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Article in The American surgeon, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Implementation of an Outpatient Violence Intervention Program to Increase Service Uptake.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Priti Lalchandani137889R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MA, USA.
Bethany L Strong137889R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MA, USA.
Melike N Harfouche12264University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9555-5698
Jose J Diaz12264University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MA, USA.
Thomas M Scalea137889R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MA, USA.
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected rates of interpersonal violence (IV). A retrospective study was performed using city-wide crime data and the trauma registry at one high-volume trauma center pre-pandemic [PP] (March-October 2019) and during the pandemic [PA] (March-October 2020). The proportion of trauma admissions attributable to IV remained unchanged from PP to PA, but IV increased as a proportion of overall crime (34% to 41%, p<0.001). Assaults decreased, but there was a proportionate increase in penetrating trauma which was mostly attributable to firearms. Despite a reduction in admissions due to IV in the first 4 months of the pandemic, the rates of violence subsequently exceeded that of the same months in 2019. The cause of the observed increase of IV is multi-factorial. Future studies aimed at identifying the root causes are essential to mitigate violence during this ongoing health crisis.

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COVID-19HumansPandemicsRetrospective StudiesTrauma CentersViolenceCOVID-19interpersonal violencetrauma

Identifiers

PMID35387524
PMCPMC9001056
OpenAlexW4223610349

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