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Cardiff Model, Violence Prevention, Accident and Emergency, Emergency Medicine, Data Sharing
The Cardiff Model - Effective NHS Contributions to Violence Prevention
Added on 16/09/2009
Emergency Departments (EDs) can contribute distinctively and effectively to violence prevention by working with Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) and by sharing, electronically wherever possible, simple anonymised data about precise location of violence, weapon use, assailants and day/time of violence. These data, and the contributions of consultants in CDRP meetings, enhance effectiveness of targeted policing significantly, reduce licensed premises and street violence, and reduce overall A&E violence related attendances.
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- The Cardiff Model - Preventing Violence (pdf - 3.38Mb)
This protocol for Emergency Medicine involvement in community violence prevention sets out the reasons for contributing, how contributions can be made, what contributions have been found to be effective, who should contribute and when contributions are best made. Misconceptions and barriers to working with local violence reduction agencies are listed, together with ways of overcoming them which are consistent with ethical guidance to doctors and data protection legislation. 2007.
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