Firearm Injury in the United States: An Overview of an Evolving Public Health Problem

J Am Coll Surg. 2015 Dec;221(6):1005-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.08.430. Epub 2015 Sep 12.

Authors

Sotirios Tasigiorgos¹, Konstantinos P Economopoulos², Robert D Winfield³, Joseph V Sakran⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece; Society of Junior Doctors, Athens, Greece.
² Society of Junior Doctors, Athens, Greece; Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: keconomopoulos@mgh.harvard.edu.
³ Department of Surgery, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

PMID: 26422747
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.08.430

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Firearms / legislation & jurisprudence
Firearms / statistics & numerical data*
Health Care Costs
Humans
Mass Casualty Incidents / legislation & jurisprudence
Mass Casualty Incidents / mortality*
Mass Casualty Incidents / prevention & control
Motivation
Socioeconomic Factors
United States / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot / epidemiology*
Wounds, Gunshot / psychology
Wounds, Gunshot / therapy