Effective Trauma Center Partnerships to Address Firearm Injury: A New Paradigm

Richmond, Therese S.; Schwab, C. William; Riely, Jeaneen; Branas, Charles C.; Cheney, Rose; Dunfey, Maura

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“…We identified 62 relevant publications 8 – 69 : 46 observational studies; seven interventional studies 18 , 38 , 55 , 60 , 64 , 66 , 67 ; one systematic review 15 ; and eight commentaries ( Figure 3A ). 22 , 23 , 33 , 46 , 56 , 62 , 65 , 69 Two-thirds of these publications were published between 2015–2020. Of the observational studies, nine (20%) publications focused on psychiatric issues; specifically, they focused on lethal means counseling and access to firearms among patients presenting with suicidal ideation.…”

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A Scoping Review of Current Social Emergency Medicine Research

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Porta

Leung

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Introduction: Social emergency medicine (EM) is an emerging field that examines the intersection of emergency care and social factors that influence health outcomes. We conducted a scoping review to explore the breadth and content of existing research pertaining to social EM to identify potential areas where future social EM research efforts should be directed. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive PubMed search using Medical Subject Heading terms and phrases pertaining to social EM topic areas (e.g., “homelessness,” “housing instability”) based on previously published expert consensus. For searches that yielded fewer than 100 total publications, we used the PubMed “similar publications” tool to expand the search and ensure no relevant publications were missed. Studies were independently abstracted by two investigators and classified as relevant if they were conducted in US or Canadian emergency departments (ED). We classified relevant publications by study design type (observational or interventional research, systematic review, or commentary), publication site, and year. Discrepancies in relevant publications or classification were reviewed by a third investigator. Results: Our search strategy yielded 1,571 publications, of which 590 (38%) were relevant to social EM; among relevant publications, 58 (10%) were interventional studies, 410 (69%) were observational studies, 26 (4%) were systematic reviews, and 96 (16%) were commentaries. The majority (68%) of studies were published between 2010–2020. Firearm research and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) health research in particular grew rapidly over the last five years. The human trafficking topic area had the highest percentage (21%) of interventional studies. A significant portion of publications -- as high as 42% in the firearm violence topic area – included observational data or interventions related to children or the pediatric ED. Areas with more search results often included many publications describing disparities known to predispose ED patients to adverse outcomes (e.g., socioeconomic or racial disparities), or the influence of social determinants on ED utilization. Conclusion: Social emergency medicine research has been growing over the past 10 years, although areas such as firearm violence and LGBTQ health have had more research activity than other topics. The field would benefit from a consensus-driven research agenda.

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A Scoping Review of Current Social Emergency Medicine Research

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Leung

et al. 2021

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“…15,16 Trauma centers can effectively take a lead role in developing and maintaining community-based primary suicide prevention programs, but more effort is needed to educate the members of the trauma community about the need for and importance of suicide prevention programs. [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] For example, only 55% of hospitals participating in a 1996 survey of United States Level I and Level II trauma centers had existing violence prevention programs, and only 47% of the trauma surgeons within those hospitals were personally involved with these programs. 22 Furthering the education of trauma center personnel about the importance of primary suicide prevention programs can best be achieved through the continuing education provided by existing trauma societies.…”

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Does Intent Matter? The Medical and Societal Burden of Self-Inflicted Injury

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Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection &Amp; Critical Care

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“…Site coordinators of a trauma center-community partnership project abstracted five years of firearm homicide data from the records of these organizations. 20 These data were used to investigate gun types and wounds among all firearm homicides occurring from 1994 to 1998. Data on wounds per body region were acquired from medical examiner's/coroner's records and were categorized according to the six Abbreviated Injury Scale regions.…”

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The Case for Enhanced Data Collection of Gun Type

Richmond

Branas

Cheney

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The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

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Background: National surveillance systems have differentiated long guns into rifles and shotguns but fail to do so for handgun type. We sought to determine whether specific gun type data could be collected and whether knowledge of specific gun types (rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver) could be used to distinguish gun homicide victims with respect to important injury parameters such as number of wounds.

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Effective Trauma Center Partnerships to Address Firearm Injury: A New Paradigm

Abstract: Background: Firearm violence is the second leading cause of injury-related death. This study examined the use of local trauma centers as lead organizations in their communities to address firearm injury.

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

A Scoping Review of Current Social Emergency Medicine Research

A Scoping Review of Current Social Emergency Medicine Research

Does Intent Matter? The Medical and Societal Burden of Self-Inflicted Injury

The Case for Enhanced Data Collection of Gun Type

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