Introduction Trauma center care and survival have been improving over the past several years. However, yearly firearm-related deaths have remained near constant at 33 000. One challenge to decreasing gunshot mortality is patients presenting with complex injury...
Objective: To examine patterns and trends of firearm injuries in a nationally representative sample of US women. Summary of Background Data: Gun violence in the United States exceeds rates seen in most other industrialized countries. Due to the paucity of data...
Background Gun violence among children and teenagers in the United States occurs at a magnitude many times that of other industrialized countries. The trends of injury in this age group relative to the adult population are not well studied. This study seeks to measure...
Background US suicide rates correlate with firearm availability. Little is known about variability in rates across countries. Aims To observe the relationship between firearm/overall suicide rates in Toronto, Canada, and the five most populous US metropolitan...
