Injury surveillance in New York City jails

Ariel Ludwig; Louise Cohen; Amanda Parsons; Homer Venters

doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300306

Injury surveillance in New York City jails

Ariel Ludwig, Louise Cohen, Amanda Parsons, Homer Venters

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Abstract

To characterize injuries occurring in jails, we analyzed injury report forms from the New York City jail system. We abstracted data from 4695 injury report forms representing 3863 patients. Of the injuries reported, 66% were classified as intentional. The 2 leading causes of injuries were inmate-on-inmate aggression (40%) and slips and falls (27%). Injuries place a considerable burden on jail health care systems, and there is a need for more studies on this problem and development of injury prevention programs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1108-1111
Number of pages	4
Journal	American journal of public health
Volume	102
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300306
State	Published - Jun 2012
Externally published	Yes

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