Study objective To identify critical emergency medicine–focused firearm injury research questions and develop an evidence-based research agenda. Methods National content experts were recruited to a technical advisory group for the American College of Emergency...
Objectives To estimate the number of lives saved from firearms suicide with expansions of gun restrictions based on mental health compared with the number who would be unnecessarily restricted. Methods Agent-based models simulated effects on suicide mortality...
Background and objective Too little is known about the effectiveness of efforts to prevent firearm violence. Our objective is to evaluate California’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS), a law enforcement intervention that seeks to recover firearms from...
Specific psychiatric disorders are associated with an increased risk of gun carrying among adolescents, but the vast majority of adolescents with psychiatric disorders did not report gun carrying. Targeted efforts to assess access to and use of firearms in mental...
Background The extent to which differences in homicide and suicide rates in black versus white men vary by U.S. state is unknown.Objective:To compare the rates of firearm and nonfirearm homicide and suicide in black and white non-Hispanic men by U.S. state and to...