Firearm injury is a public health crisis in the United States. Selective media coverage may contribute to incomplete public understanding of firearm injury. To better understand how firearm injury is communicated to the public, we analyzed media coverage of...
Objective We sought to determine whether state firearm legislation correlated with firearm-related fatality rates (FFR) during a 15-year period. Background The politicized and controversial topic of firearm legislation has been grossly understudied when the...
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...
Objective We aimed to determine whether gentrification predicts the movement of shooting victims over time and if this process has decreased access to care. Background Trauma centers remain fixed in space, but the populations they serve do not. Nationally,...
Background One hundred thousand Americans are shot annually, and 39,000 die. State laws restricting firearm sales and use have been shown to decrease firearm deaths, yet little is known about what impacts their passage or repeal. We hypothesized that spending by...