A total of around 351.500 consecutive patients admitted to Dep. of Trauma Surgery, Medical University Vienna, have been considered eligible for inclusion. Out of this patient population a total of 1.406 cases associated with IPV have been consecutively and prospectively included in our in-house screening service for IPV cases. Data collection was performed prospectively and statistical evaluation was performed retrospectively. 40 individuals had to be excluded due to missing data resulting in 1.366 individuals that were included in our analysis.