Firearm-related hospitalizations and in-hospital mortality in the United States, 2000-2010

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 303-312

  Kalesan, Bindu ^a,b   French, Clare ^c   Fagan, Jeffrey A ^a,d   Fowler, Dennis L ^a   Galea, Sandro ^e  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d School for International and Public Affairs   (United States)

^e Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

firearms; hospitalization; injury nonfatal; trends; violence

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INJURY; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; FREARM RELATED HOSPITALIZATION; GROUPS BY AGE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEG FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PELVIS INJURY; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THORAX INJURY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

FIREARMS; HOSPITALIZATION; INJURY NONFATAL; TRENDS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892695069     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt255     Document Type: Article

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