Highlights
- •Penetrating trauma has increased in the UK.
- •Violence reduction initiatives are increasingly used to target penetrating trauma.
- •Key demographic information about who is involved, where and when, can help to target violence reduction initiatives.
- •This study demonstrated that the use of a national trauma registry can provide key information with which to target VR initiatives.
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