US Emergency Department Encounters for Firearm Injuries According to Presentation at Trauma vs Nontrauma Centers.
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This study uses the 2009-2014 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample to describe the volume and disposition of individuals with firearm injuries presenting to US emergency departments to determine opportunities to deliver interventions to prevent recurrent injury.
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Prior studies indicate that verified and/or designated trauma centers care for approximately 70% of medically treated firearm injuries in the U.S.
“Prior studies indicate that verified and/or designated trauma centers care for approximately 70% of medically treated firearm injuries in the U.S [5].”
From Firearm injuries in Missouri (2023) · cites this paper as [5]
The Results (p. not available) report that 309,930 of 445,915 US emergency-department encounters for firearm injury (69.5%) were treated at trauma centers. The Methods (p. not available) define these as level I–III trauma centers, but the paper does not establish their verification or designation status, and its estimate covers ED encounters rather than all medically treated firearm injuries. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIt is estimated that 30.5% of patients seek care at a non-trauma center.
“It is estimated that 30.5% of patients seek care at a non-trauma center.31”
From Machine learning classification of new firearm injury encounters in the St Louis region: 2010-2020 (2024) · cites this paper as [31]
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- Authors
- Coupet, E., Huang, Y., & Delgado, M. K.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (US)
- Corresponding author
- Coupet, Edouard
- Venue
- JAMA Surgery
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2019-04-01
- Volume
- 154
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 360
- ISSN
- 2168-6254 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6484801
- OpenAlex
- W2913000914
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 6.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- JAMA Surgery (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Lawson Health Research Institute
- Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
- Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (K12DA033312)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23HD090272)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Keywords
- firearm injuries, emergency department visits, trauma centers, injury prevention, injury recurrence, patient disposition, injury prevention interventions
- MeSH terms
- Accidents, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Emergency Service, Hospital, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Admission, Patient Discharge, Trauma Centers, United States, Violence, Wounds, Gunshot, Self-Injurious Behavior, Secondary Prevention, Young Adult
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