Introduction Emergency physicians (EP) experience high rates of workplace violence, the risks of which increase with the presence of weapons. Up to 25% of trauma patients brought to the emergency department (ED) have been found to carry weapons. Given these risks, we...
Medical and public health societies advocate that healthcare providers (HCPs) counsel at-risk patients to reduce firearm injury risk. Anonymous online media comments often contain extreme viewpoints and may therefore help in understanding challenges of firearm safety...
Firearms are a leading cause of death in the United States, yet the effort to understand their aggregate impact on the public’s health has only just begun. There were 26,442 firearm deaths among California residents during the years 1977 through 1983. During...
