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"Serious knife injuries are increasing, say trauma experts at the Royal London Hospital in a letter to the British Medical Journal. Several recent deaths have fuelled the perception that forensic knife injuries have become an epidemic, resulting in a knife amnesty and government discussion of new punitive measures, write Charles Knowles and colleagues. The authors audited knife injuries at their east London hospital, one of Europe's busiest emergency departments, to establish the size of this problem in a representative urban area."
Stabbing: data support public perception - König et al. BMJ.2006; 333: 652
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/333/7569/652
PDF - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/333/7569/652
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