State-specific, racial and ethnic heterogeneity in trends of firearm-related fatality rates in the USA from 2000 to 2010

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Kalesan, Bindu ^a   Vasan, Sowmya ^a   Mobily, Matthew E ^a   Villarreal, Marcos D ^a   Hlavacek, Patrick ^a   Teperman, Sheldon ^b   Fagan, Jeffrey A ^a   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNICITY; FIREARM RELATED FATALITY RATE; HISPANIC; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGISTER; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; TIME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FIREARMS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84907911152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005628     Document Type: Article

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