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Q In victims of violence who are on parole or probation, can a hospital-based violence prevention intervention reduce hospital recidivism for violent injury and arrests for violent crimes?
Clinical impact ratings Psychiatry ★★★★★★☆ Emergency medicine ★★★★★☆☆
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
unclear allocation concealment.*
Blinding:
unblinded.*
Follow up period:
median 1–2 years.
Setting:
hospital trauma centre in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Patients:
100 patients ⩾18 years of age (median age <30 y, 96% men) who were admitted to hospital for an injury related to a violent assault for at least the second time and were on parole or probation in the criminal justice system.
Intervention:
56 patients were allocated to the Violence Intervention Programme (VIP), which involved meetings with a social or case worker at least every 2 weeks to devise and implement a service plan (including, as appropriate, substance abuse rehabilitation, employment …
Footnotes
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↵* See glossary.
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For correspondence: Dr C Cooper, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. ccooper{at}umm.edu
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Source of funding: not stated.