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Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot?
1South Florida Reception Center, Miami, Florida 33178, USA. Drjpmay@aol.com
Objectives:
To determine whether criminals go to the hospital when they are shot. Such information is needed to check on the accuracy of using hospital emergency room data to estimate non-fatal gunshot wounds.
Setting:
Five jails across the US.
Methods:
A survey of inmates being booked into jail, administered by in-house health care staff.
Results:
Over 90% of over 300 criminals who had been wounded sometime before their incarceration reported going to a hospital for treatment after being shot. These results are consistent with previous findings from one jail.
Conclusions:
Jail inmates who had previously been shot were likely to have been treated in a hospital. This limited finding is consistent with the proposition that hospital/emergency department data may miss only a small percentage of gunshot wounds to criminals.
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