Too many or too few unintentional firearm deaths in official U.S. mortality data?

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 724-731

  Barber, Catherine ^a   Hemenway, David ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Firearm accident; Injury surveillance; National Violent Death Reporting System; National Vital Statistics System; Nosology

Indexed keywords

FIREARM ACCIDENT; INJURY SURVEILLANCE; NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM; NATIONAL VITAL STATISTICS SYSTEM; NOSOLOGY;

ACCIDENTS; CRIME;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952442994     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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