Do clinicians follow guidelines on firearm safety counseling?

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 749-756

  Barkin, Shari ^a,c   Duan, Naihua ^b   Fink, Arlene ^a   Brook, Robert H ^b   Gelberg, Lillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; SELF REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; FIREARMS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SAFETY; SAMPLING STUDIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0032134263     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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