Can routinely collected ambulance data about assaults contribute to reduction in community violence?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 308-313

  Ariel, Barak ^a,b   Weinborn, Cristobal ^a   Boyle, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CRIME; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIOLENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COOPERATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ALGORITHMS; AMBULANCES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HUMANS; POLICE; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84925646698     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2013-203133     Document Type: Article

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