Effectiveness of Interventions to Promote Safe Firearm Storage

Epidemiologic Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 111-124

  Rowhani Rahbar, Ali ^a,b,c   Simonetti, Joseph A ^b,c   Rivara, Frederick P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

firearms; program evaluation; safety

Indexed keywords

COUNSELING; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; FIREARM; FIREARM STORAGE; FOLLOW UP; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HEALTH PROMOTION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SAFETY; STANDARDS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

FIREARMS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SAFETY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84960116978     PISSN: 0193936X     EISSN: 14786729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxv006     Document Type: Review

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