TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Changes in health care spending, use, and clinical outcomes after nonfatal firearm injuries among survivors and family members
JO  - Annals of internal medicine
A1  - Ertle, Alan R.
SP  - W145
EP  - W145
VL  - 175
IS  - 11
N2  - I read Song and colleagues' article (1) with interest. It is not surprising that medical costs, psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and pain increase after someone survives a nonfatal firearm injury. The same would probably occur in survivors of automobile crash, sporting, and workplace injuries. However, the extent to which the costs and other issues associated with these injuries increase compared with firearm injuries is unclear. Approximately 1.5 million automobile crashes with survivors with injuries take place each year in the United States. If the cost increases for these survivors were the same as for survivors of...<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0003-4819
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/L22-0266
ID  - ref1
ER  -