NBC News (10/20, McShane) reports “emergency department visits related to sexual assault increased more than tenfold over a span of 13 years, according to” a study that “showed that those visits increased 1,533% from 2006 to 2019 – a jump from 3,600 annual visits to 55,200.” The findings published in JAMA Network Open revealed that “the largest increase occurred between 2015 and 2016.” Furthermore, most ED visits “following sexual assault were by young adult women,” and “lower-income people were also an overrepresented group, the study found.”
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— “Sexual assault-related ER visits increased more than tenfold since 2006, study finds “Julianne McShane, NBC News, October 20, 2022