@article{ref1,
title="Updates in firearms access screening",
journal="Academic pediatrics",
year="2021",
author="Li, Caitlin Naureckas and Sacks, Chana A. and Masiakos, Peter T. and Flaherty, Michael R.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="As the United States started to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions in early 2021, we witnessed a spate of mass shootings in cities across the country. While these searing images -eight people dead at an Atlanta spa, hundreds terrorized while grocery shopping in Boulder, Colorado - so often frame the narrative of gun violence in America, suicide by firearm accounts for more than 60% of all deaths from gun violence across the United States and remains an under-recognized threat. Additionally, living in a home with a firearm increases an adolescent's risk of death. In our study &quot;Screening for Access to Firearms by Pediatric Trainees in High-Risk Patients,&quot; we reviewed screening for access to firearms by pediatric residents in patients with suicidal or homicidal ideation who presented to a pediatric emergency department. We found that this screening was documented in only 5% of these encounters. Furthermore, 5% of patients were discharged home without this potentially life-saving screening having been completed by any provider. Because this low screening rate represented a critical missed opportunity to address a potentially modifiable risk factor, our team subsequently completed a quality improvement project after which the rate of screening increased to 34%. While this was a positive change, it still left the majority of our patients unscreened and significant room for improvement.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1876-2859",
doi="10.1016/j.acap.2021.07.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.07.001"
}