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Family Violence Database - Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset Data Tables

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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The Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) contains information detailing presentations at Victorian public hospitals with designated Emergency Departments. For the purposes of this report, patients presenting for family violence reasons are identified by the ‘human intent’ data item. At the Emergency Department, the clinician assesses the most likely human intent. Patients presenting for family violence reasons are those that presented with a human intent injury of 'Maltreatment, assault by domestic partner' or 'Child neglect/maltreatment by parent or guardian'. The VEMD information published under the Family Violence Database (FVDB) focuses on the demographic characteristics as well as the nature and cause of their injuries of the patients presenting for family violence reasons. The FVDB only reports on family violence (FV) related patients (as indicated by the human intent data item). Therefore, when there is a reference in the FVDB to 'patients', this only includes family violence related patients presenting to a public hospital in Victoria. The counting unit for the VEMD is the patient presenting at a Victorian public hospital. In the dataset there is one record per patient. However, persons can present multiple times at the emergency department and thus have multiple records in the VEMD.

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Title Family Violence Database - Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset Data Tables
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cc56ff5c-06f9-4ce8-9c67-3e9b6d8ab902
Remote Last Updated 17/12/2024
Contact Point
Department of Justice and Community Safety
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 30/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Family Violence Database - Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset Data Tables". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/family-violence-database-victorian-emergency-minimum-dataset-data-tables