Comprehensive Local Injury Surveillance for Pediatric Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Prevention Planning

Nonfatal and fatal firearm-related injuries--United States, 1993-1997.

In 1997, 32,436 deaths resulted from firearm-related injuries, making such injuries the second leading cause of injury mortality in the United States after motor-vehicle-related incidents (1). Also in 1997, an estimated 64,207 persons sustained nonfatal firearm-related injuries and were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments (EDs); approximately 40% required inpatient hospital care. Nat...

Internists' attitudes toward prevention of firearm injury.

BACKGROUND Professional organizations have called for the medical community's attention to the prevention of firearm injury. However, little is known about physicians' attitudes and practices in preventing firearm injury. OBJECTIVE To determine internists' attitudes and practices about firearms and to assess whether opinions differ according to whether there are gun owners in a physician's ho...

Measuring the population burden of fatal and nonfatal injury.

The value of measuring the population burden of fatal and nonfatal injury is well established. Population health metrics are important for assessing health status and health-related quality of life after injury and for integrating mortality, disability, and quality-of-life consequences. A frequently used population health metric is the disability-adjusted life-year. This metric was launched in ...

Firearm Injury from Crime

Firearm injuries caused by crime include those caused by interpersonal violence regardless of whether or not the victim was the intended target. Such injuries can be fatal (homicides) or nonfatal (assaults). As discussed on page 6, firearm homicide data from several good sources have been available for many years. Little data on nonfatal firearm injuries caused by crime were available until rec...

Priorities for pediatric injury prevention counseling.