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Citation

Boyle AA, Kirkbride J, Jones P. J. Epidemiol. Community Health 2005; 59(10): 909-910.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Box 189, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB4 6DU, UK. boylea@doctors.org.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/jech.2004.028597

PMID

16166369

PMCID

PMC1732918

Abstract

Community surveys show that domestic violence is a common problem affecting about 5% of the population each year. Around 1% of emergency department visits in the UK are attributable to domestic assault. The British Home Office estimates that 2.9 million domestic assault injuries occur every year in the UK. It is not clear how many domestic assault victims who present to an emergency department also have their assault recorded as a crime by the police. We aimed to identify what proportion of cases presenting at the emergency department had their assault recorded by the police and what the completeness of these lists were. We compared confidential lists of recorded domestic assault victims from the Cambridgeshire and Essex constabularies with a list from the emergency department of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, over 2001.

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