Disability-related intentional injury hospitalizations: A multi-state analysis

Abstract

The increase in intentional injury has led to research on violence prevention as well as research on the effects of violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine factors correlated with disability-related intentional injury hospitalizations (using data from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP-3) for 1992). Findings from this sample of over 800 hospitals across 11 states (California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) reveal that no one group is immune from the effects of violence. It touches the old, the young, urban residents, rural residents, African Americans, Latinos, Caucasian American, the poor and nonpoor alike. Intentional injury victims with impairment conditions, chronic conditions or degenerative conditions were more likely to be over 65, female, to have Medicaid or self pay as an expected payer for their medical care, to have been hospitalized for child battering or some other form of maltreatment, to have been hospitalized because of being assaulted by a cutting or sharp instrument or to have been hospitalized as a result of the late effects of injuries purposely inflicted by another person.

Citation

Cornelius, L.J. (2000), "Disability-related intentional injury hospitalizations: A multi-state analysis", Altman, B.M. and Barnartt, S.N. (Ed.) Expanding the Scope of Social Science Research on Disability (Research in Social Science and Disability, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 155-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3547(00)80009-3