Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 11-17 , January 2009

Demographic and socioeconomic risk factors of adult violent victimization from an accident and emergency department and forensic medicine perspective: A register-based case-control study

  • Christian Faergemann, PhD (Senior Registrar)

      Affiliations

    • Accident Analysis Group, Department of Orthopaedics, Odense University Hospital, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +45 6541 2283; fax: +45 6613 6581.
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  • Jens Martin Lauritsen, PhD (Associate Professor)

      Affiliations

    • Accident Analysis Group, Department of Orthopaedics, Odense University Hospital, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark
    • Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark
    • ,
  • Ole Brink, PhD (Associate Professor)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
    • ,
  • Ole Skov, PhD (Consultant)

      Affiliations

    • Accident Analysis Group, Department of Orthopaedics, Odense University Hospital, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark
    • ,
  • Preben Bo Mortensen, DrMedSc (Director, Professor)

      Affiliations

    • National Centre for Register-based Research, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Received 17 December 2007 ,Revised 14 February 2008 ,Accepted 19 May 2008.

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PII: S1752-928X(08)00109-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2008.05.014

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 11-17 , January 2009

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