Interpersonal violence and violent re‐injury in the Northern Territory

Objectives To analyse incidence of prior emergency department presentations for interpersonal violence and demographics for a series of hospital admissions for interpersonal violence injuries. Design Retrospective analysis of trauma registry. Setting A tertiary hospital and primary referral centre for trauma in the Top End of the Northern Territory. Participants Patients hospitalised from 2010 to 2015 for injuries due to interpersonal violence with an injury severity score > 9. Main outcome measures Patient demographics, injury location, assault mechanism, alleged perpetrator, time/day of event, alcohol involvement, clinical outcome and prior emergency department presentations for interpersonal violence. Results A total of 248 admissions for patients with Injury Severity Score > 9 due to interpersonal violence were identified. Indigenous females over‐represented non‐Indigenous females (35.4% vs 5.0%, P