Background Several U.S. medical organizations urge clinicians to counsel patients about firearm risk (1). How often these conversations occur and what topics are covered are unknown. Objective To estimate the proportion of adults in gun-owning households who...
Background The suicide case-fatality rate (CFR)—the proportion of suicidal acts that are fatal—depends on the distribution of methods used in suicidal acts and the probability of death given a particular method (method-specific CFR). Objective To estimate...
Objectives To evaluate the effect of large-capacity magazine (LCM) bans on the frequency and lethality of high-fatality mass shootings in the United States. Methods We analyzed state panel data of high-fatality mass shootings from 1990 to 2017. We first...
Objectives To evaluate the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) as a surveillance system for fatal shootings of civilians by law enforcement in the United States. Methods We cross-linked individual-level mortality data from the 2015 NVDRS and 5 open-source...
The USA has very high rates of homicide by police compared to other high-income countries, with approximately 1000 civilians killed annually. The overwhelming majority of these police homicides are fatal shootings. Over the past 5 years, several comprehensive,...
