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Summary Background Injury from interpersonal violence is a major social and medical problem in the industrialized world. Little is known about the trends in prevalence and injury pattern or about the demographic characteristics of the patients involved. Methods In this retrospective analysis, we screened the database of the Emergency Department of a large university hospital for all patients who...