BACKGROUND Wraparound referrals are a cornerstone of hospital-based violence intervention programs, which have proven to be an effective public health approach for mitigating violence and recidivism. We hypothesized that replacing a manual referral process with an electronic referral application would increase the number of generated referrals and improve compliance with follow-up visits. STUDY DESIGN The population for this single center quantitative study was a convenience sample of firearm-injured patients. Data from 74 patients were collected using the electronic health record, the electronic referral application, and the trauma registry before and after the intervention. RESULTS Post-implementation of the electronic referral application showed an increased number of generated referrals, increased emergency department and inpatient utilization of trauma recovery center services, and an increase in second follow-up visit compliance. CONCLUSION This study demonstrated an increase in the number of referrals and greater likelihood of completion of post-injury follow-up visits after implementing the electronic referral system.

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在基于医院的暴力干预计划中使用电子转诊应用程序来满足枪支伤害受害者的受伤后需求。

背景全面转诊是基于医院的暴力干预计划的基石，已被证明是减轻暴力和累犯的有效公共卫生方法。我们假设用电子转诊申请取代手动转诊流程将增加生成转诊的数量并提高对后续访问的依从性。研究设计 这项单中心定量研究的人群是枪支受伤患者的便利样本。使用电子健康记录、电子转诊应用程序和干预前后的创伤登记处收集了 74 名患者的数据。结果 电子推荐应用程序的实施后显示生成的推荐数量增加，增加了急诊科和住院患者对创伤康复中心服务的利用率，并提高了第二次随访的依从性。结论 本研究表明，在实施电子转诊系统后，转诊次数增加，完成伤后随访的可能性更大。