@article{ref1,
title="Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot?",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2002",
author="May, J. P. and Hemenway, David A. and Hall, Anthony",
volume="8",
number="3",
pages="236-238",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To determine whether criminals go to the hospital when they are shot. Such information is needed to check on the accuracy of using hospital emergency room data to estimate non-fatal gunshot wounds. SETTING: Five jails across the US. METHODS: A survey of inmates being booked into jail, administered by in-house health care staff. RESULTS: Over 90% of over 300 criminals who had been wounded sometime before their incarceration reported going to a hospital for treatment after being shot. These results are consistent with previous findings from one jail. CONCLUSIONS: Jail inmates who had previously been shot were likely to have been treated in a hospital. This limited finding is consistent with the proposition that hospital/emergency department data may miss only a small percentage of gunshot wounds to criminals.  See comment by Gary D. Kleck A Comment on May et al. (2002) http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/8/3/236/reply#injuryprev_el_10587",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}