National estimates of non-fatal firearm related injuries other than gunshot wounds

National estimates of non-fatal firearm related injuries other than gunshot wounds.

OBJECTIVE To characterize non-fatal firearm related injuries other than gunshot wounds (non-GSWs) treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States that occur during routine gun handling and recreational use as well as violence related use of a firearm. METHODS Cases were identified through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). During the study period, 1 Jan...

[A statistical study of fatal gunshot wounds].

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...

Risk factors associated with non-fatal adolescent firearm injuries.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify behavioral, environmental, and sociodemographic risk factors associated with non-fatal firearm injuries among inner city adolescents in the United States. DESIGN A case-control study in which patients with firearm injury serve as cases and those with medical conditions serve as controls. SETTING A level I trauma center in a metropolitan area serving a predominat...

Fatal gunshot injuries in Benin City, Nigeria.

An upsurge in gun violence in recent times in our environment necessitated this study, which aims to document the patterns of fatal gunshot injuries with the hope of finding a solution to this problem. The study was a retrospective analysis of cases of fatal gunshot injuries on which autopsies were carried out over the 5-year period from January 1998 to December 2002 at Police Medical Services,...