According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 2.2 million adults were incarcerated in the United States as of 2015,¹ representing 0.7% of the total population. The United States has the highest rate and number of incarcerated persons in the world.² To date, no national statistics on surgical outcomes have been reported for the actively incarcerated prison population in the United States, to our knowledge. Florida has the third-largest incarcerated population in the country.² Incarcerated individuals represent a vulnerable patient population, in particular with regards to medical care.³ We hypothesized that surgical access would be affected in this population and sought to quantify the postmortem incidence of acute surgical- and trauma-associated pathologic conditions of inmates in Miami Dade County, Florida.

根据美国司法统计局的数据，截至2015年，美国有超过220万成年人被监禁，其中^1人占总人口的0.7％。美国是世界上被监禁人数最高的国家。²据我们所知，迄今为止，尚无关于美国被积极关押的监狱人口的手术结局的国家统计数据。佛罗里达州是美国第三大被囚禁人口。²被监禁的人代表弱势的患者人群，尤其是在医疗方面。³ 我们假设该人群将受到外科手术的影响，并试图量化佛罗里达州迈阿密戴德县囚犯急性外科手术和创伤相关病理状况的事后发生率。