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Sarabeth A. Spitzer

General Surgery Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Verified email at bwh.harvard.edu
Cited by 838

Preventing firearm-related death and injury

R Pallin, SA Spitzer, ML Ranney, ME Betz… - Annals of Internal …, 2019 - acpjournals.org
Deaths and injuries from firearms are significant public health problems, and clinicians are
in a unique position to identify risk among their patients and discuss the importance of safe …

Evolution of mosquito preference for humans linked to an odorant receptor

CS McBride, F Baier, AB Omondi, SA Spitzer… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Female mosquitoes are major vectors of human disease and the most dangerous are those
that preferentially bite humans. A 'domestic'form of the mosquito Aedes aegypti has evolved …

Costs and financial burden of initial hospitalizations for firearm injuries in the United States, 2006–2014

SA Spitzer, KL Staudenmayer… - … journal of public …, 2017 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To quantify the inflation-adjusted costs associated with initial hospitalizations for
firearm-related injuries in the United States. Methods. We used the Healthcare Cost and …

Outcomes after ultramassive transfusion in the modern era: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study

ZA Matthay, ZJ Hellmann, RA Callcut… - Journal of Trauma …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Despite the widespread institution of modern massive transfusion protocols
with balanced blood product ratios, survival for patients with traumatic hemorrhage receiving …

[HTML][HTML] Readmission risk and costs of firearm injuries in the United States, 2010-2015

SA Spitzer, D Vail, L Tennakoon, C Rajasingh… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background In 2015 there were 36,252 firearm-related deaths and 84,997 nonfatal injuries
in the United States. The longitudinal burden of these injuries through readmissions is …

Hospital costs and fatality rates of traumatic assaults by mechanism in the US, 2016-2018

LE Barry, GE Crealey, NTQ Nguyen… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Estimates of the total economic cost of firearm violence are important in drawing
attention to this public health issue; however, studies that consider violence more broadly …

Incidence, distribution, and lethality of firearm injuries in California from 2005 to 2015

SA Spitzer, VA Pear, CD McCort… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Little is known about nonfatal firearm injuries in the United States, and national
estimates based on emergency department samples may not be accurate. Objective To …

The impact of redlining on modern-day firearm injuries: a nationwide study of federal policy

SA Spitzer, DG Vail, T Dey, A Salim… - Annals of surgery, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To evaluate whether exposure to the United States discriminatory housing
practice of redlining, which occurred in over 200 cities in the 1930s, is associated with …

Gentrification as a Factor in the Incidence of Firearm Injuries

SA Spitzer, DG Vail, P Heindel, T Dey, Z Cooper… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Firearm injuries are an epidemic in the US; more than 45 000 fatal injuries were
recorded in 2020 alone. Gaining a deeper understanding of socioeconomic factors that may …

Impact of medicaid expansion and firearm legislation on cost of firearm injuries

SC Brough, L Tennakoon, SA Spitzer, A Thomas… - American journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Firearm injury–related hospitalizations in the US cost $900 million annually.
Before the Affordable Care Act, government insurance programs covered 41% of the costs …