Background Federal law requires background checks for firearms purchased from licensed dealers, but states can extend requirements to private sales of handguns and purchases at gun shows (universal background checks for handguns [UBC-HG]). Although firearm homicide...
Background Firearm injury is a major public health burden in the USA. Absent a single, reliable data source, researchers have attempted to describe firearm injury epidemiology using trauma registry data. To understand the implications of this approach, we compared...
Background Gun violence remains a staggering public health care crisis. Although viewing the victim’s body is essential to the grieving process, this practice is not universally practiced in the trauma bay and may not be supported by nurses. This study...
Objectives To describe variability in the burden of firearm violence by race, income, and place in an urban context. Methods We used Philadelphia Police Department data from 2013 to 2014 to calculate firearm assault rates within census block groups for both...
Background Recent attention has been paid to the role trauma centers play in responding to mass shootings. Although high-profile public events are the primary focus of media and policy makers, firearm-injured patients (FIPs) present in clusters to urban trauma centers...
