@article{ref1,
title="Role of nonpowder guns in pediatric firearm injuries",
journal="American journal of surgery",
year="2017",
author="Ballard, David H. and Williams, Mallory and Samra, Navdeep S.",
volume="213",
number="6",
pages="1193-1193",
abstract="<p>We read with great interest the study by Bachier-Rodriguez et al.1 in which they report a two-center retrospective cohort of 562 pediatric firearm injuries with a predominant (80%; 450 of 562 patients) proportion of 15–19 years old adolescents and African-Americans (85.4%; 480/562). Mechanisms included assault (70.5%; 396/562), unintentional (14.4%; 81/562), suicide (3%; 17/562), and undetermined (12.1%; 68/562). Adolescents were significantly more likely to be male, African-American, have higher ISS, and suffer an injury due to assault, whereas children 0–14 years of age were more likely to suffer unintentional firearm injuries.</p> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-9610",
doi="10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.12.016",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.12.016"
}