Methodologic Approaches for Using Electronic Medical Records to Identify Experiences of Violence in Transgender and Cisgender People: Closing the Gap Between Diagnostic Coding and Lived Experiences.

Background: Transgender people experience extreme rates of violence and the electronic medical record (EMR) remains a mostly untapped resource to study the medical sequelae of such experiences.

Objectives: To develop and test a method for identifying experiences of violence using EMR data.

Research Design: Cross-sectional study utilizing EMR data.