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Differences In Reporting Of Violence And Deliberate Self Harm Related Injuries To Health And Police Authorities, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Umar Farooq, Mudassir Majeed, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, Jahangir Sarwar Khan, Junaid Razzak, Muhammad Mussadiq Khan
Differences In Reporting Of Violence And Deliberate Self Harm Related Injuries To Health And Police Authorities, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Umar Farooq, Mudassir Majeed, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, Jahangir Sarwar Khan, Junaid Razzak, Muhammad Mussadiq Khan
Department of Emergency Medicine
Background:
The aim of study was to assess differences in reporting of violence and deliberate self harm (DSH) related injuries to police and emergency department (ED) in an urban town of Pakistan.
Methods/Principal Findings:
Study setting was Rawalpindi city of 1.6 million inhabitants. Incidences of violence and DSH related injuries and deaths were estimated from record linkage of police and ED data. These were then compared to reported figures in both datasets. All persons reporting violence and DSH related injury to the police station, the public hospital's ED, or both in Rawalpindi city from July 1, 2007 to June 30, …