Data suggest that healthcare costs triple for survivors of police shootings in Canada, compared with costs before the shooting and with costs for nonfirearm injuries.
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Police shootings were defined as injuries involving a firearm discharge by law enforcement agents while on duty, compared with other mechanisms of injury involving police. Among the 13,520 individuals who survived acute injury, long-term financial data were available for 8755 persons . Patients who survived a police shooting accounted for 28 subsequent cases of disability over 525 patient-years of follow-up, which is equal to an incidence of 53 per 1000 patients annually. Patients who survived nonfirearm injuries accounted for 2181 subsequent cases of disability over 51,577 patient-years of follow-up .
Economic analyses were limited by lags in the billing system and other accounting delays, and with the 5-year follow-up period, it is likely that longer-term healthcare costs were underestimated.
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