@article{ref1,
title="Interpersonal violence in Spain through national hospital discharge survey",
journal="Gaceta Sanitaria",
year="2019",
author="Gil-Borrelli, Christian Carlo and Latasa Zamalloa, Pello and Martín Ríos, María Dolores and Rodríguez Arenas, M. Ángeles",
volume="33",
number="4",
pages="317-324",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology of interpersonal violence in Spain. <br><br>METHOD: Descriptive study of the cases of patients with secondary diagnosis of aggression registered on a national hospital discharge database, between 1999 and 2011, using the codes from E960 to E969 of the ICD-9. The distribution by sex, age and type of discharge, associated morbidity, mortality and by autonomous community is described. The quality of the record is studied according to its temporal variation. <br><br>RESULTS: The case profile of aggression in men (85%) is of a patient between 15 and 44 years old, who in 93.7% of cases requires urgent care and whose severity is moderate (95% discharge home). Two point five percent of patients are readmitted and death occurs in1.1%. The profile in women (15%) differs slightly, with an age between 31 and 52 years, 94% require urgent attention, although 96% have moderate severity; 3% are readmitted and 1.7% die. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Although they need to be improved to avoid certain limitations, health information systems are a rich source of data that can be used for research in health and, through their results, for the development of prevention plans and intervention in matters of violence.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 SESPAS. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0213-9111",
doi="10.1016/j.gaceta.2018.02.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2018.02.008"
}