@article{ref1,
title="Firearm injury research and epidemiology: a review of the data, their limitations and how trauma centers can improve firearm injury research",
journal="Journal of trauma and acute care surgery",
year="2019",
author="Hink, Ashley B. and Bonne, Stephanie L. and Levy, Marc and Kuhls, Deborah A. and Allee, Lisa and Burke, Peter A. and Sakran, Joseph and Bulger, Eileen M. and Stewart, Ronald M.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Understanding the epidemiology and risk factors for any disease is the fundamental basis for which we can then create a public health approach to address it. This includes firearm injuries, which claim the lives of nearly 40,000 a year in the U.S. Despite the fact that firearm injury is one of the leading causes of death among young people and has the highest fatality rate for injuries treated in trauma centers, research dedicated to the causes and prevention of firearm injury is disproportionately minimal compared to other causes of injury and death. This review provides an overview of the existing sources of firearm injury data and their limitations to quantify and characterize non-fatal firearm injuries, and to describe the burden of firearm injuries on patients and society. These data are imperative to informing prevention and intervention efforts and the ability to evaluate them. We describe how trauma centers are in opportune positions to improve the surveillance and characterization of risks and circumstances contributing to firearm injuries. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Not-applicable, review.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2163-0755",
doi="10.1097/TA.0000000000002330",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000002330"
}