Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs Targeting Adult Populations: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Evidence-based Review

Overview

Journal Trauma Surg Acute Care Open

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2018 May 17

PMID 29766064

Citations 18

Authors

Steven Affinati

Desmond Patton

Luke Hansen

Megan Ranney

A Britton Christmas

Pina Violano

Aparna Sodhi

Bryce Robinson

Marie Crandall

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: Violent injury and reinjury take a devastating toll on distressed communities. Many trauma centers have created hospital-based violent injury prevention programs (HVIP) to address psychosocial, educational, and mental health needs of injured patients that may contribute to reinjury.

Objectives: To evaluate the overall effectiveness of HVIPs for violent injury prevention. We performed an evidence-based review to answer the following population, intervention, comparator, outcomes (PICO) question: Are HVIPs attending to adult patients (age 18+) treated for intentional injury more effective than the usual care at preventing: intentional violent reinjury and/or death; arrest and/or incarceration; substance abuse and/or mental issues; job and/or school attainment?

Data Sources: PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library were queried for salient articles by a professional librarian on two separate occasions, and related articles were identified from references.

Study Eligibility Criteria Participants Interventions: Eligible studies examined adult patients treated for intentional injury in a hospital-based violence prevention program compared to a control group.

Study Appraisal And Synthesis Methods: We used the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation methodology to assess the breadth and quality of the evidence.

Results: 71 articles were identified. After discarding duplicates, reviews, and those articles that did not address our PICO questions, we ultimately reviewed 10 articles. We found insufficient evidence to recommend adult-focused HVIP interventions.

Limitations: There was a relative paucity of data, and available studies were limited by self-selection bias and small sample sizes.

Conclusions: We make no recommendation with respect to adult-focused HVIP interventions.

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