Trends and Burden of Firearm-related Hospitalizations in the United States Across 2001-2011

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 484-492.e1

  Agarwal, Shikhar ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case fatality; Cost of illness; Firearms; In hospital mortality; Length of stay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FATALITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84928969112     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.12.008     Document Type: Article

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