The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data
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This Viewpoint summarizes current data on firearm injuries in the US, discusses the limitations of available data sources, and proposes measures for a comprehensive system to track firearm injury and death
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The study patients experienced much higher rates of non-fatal firearm injuries than reported elsewhere; the fatal to non-fatal firearm injury rate was 1:14 in the index injury population and 1:7 in the recurrent injury population, compared to rates of 1:2 reported elsewhere.
“Additionally, our patients experienced much higher rates of non-fatal firearm injuries than reported elsewhere; the fatal to non-fatal firearm injury rate was 1:14 in the index injury population and 1:7 in the recurrent injury population, compared to rates of 1:2 reported elsewhere.10,31”
From Incidence of and Factors Associated With Recurrent Firearm Injury Among Patients Presenting to St. Louis Trauma Centers, 2010 to 2019 (2023) · cites this paper as [31]
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- Authors
- Kaufman, E. J., & Delgado, M. K.
- Affiliations
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (US)
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2022-09-27
- Volume
- 328
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1177
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W4297256376
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 8.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Keywords
- firearm injuries, firearm deaths, injury epidemiology, injury surveillance, gun violence
- MeSH terms
- Emergency Service, Hospital, Firearms, Humans, United States, Wounds, Gunshot, Age Distribution
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