Health inequities in pediatric trauma

ML Kayton, V Staab, B Stahl, K Tan, L Russo, M Verney… - Children, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review article highlights the disparities evident in pediatric trauma care in the United
States. Social determinants of health play a significant role in key aspects of trauma care …

Preinjury and Event-Related Characteristics of Pediatric Firearm Injuries: The American College of Surgeons Firearm Study, United States, March 2021‒February …

KT Flynn-O'Brien, C Sathya… - … Journal of Public …, 2024 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To assess differences in contextual factors by intent among pediatric firearm
injury patients and determine factors associated with data missingness. Methods. We …

Child firearm injury circumstances and associations with violence intervention program enrollment

ME Bernardin, K Spectorsky, H Gu, C Fairfax… - Journal of surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Pediatric firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among American
children. While assault is the most commonly cited cause, few studies have investigated …

Twenty-two years of pediatric musculoskeletal firearm injuries: adverse outcomes for the very young

EN Boschert, CE Stubblefield, KJ Reid… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Firearm injuries are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for children in
the United States. The purpose of this study is to investigate the 22-year experience of …

When public health crises collide: 5 years of pediatric firearm injury prevention opportunities

LC Tatebe, JT Cone, MB Slidell, G Chang… - Trauma surgery & …, 2023 - tsaco.bmj.com
Objectives Prior publications on pediatric firearm-related injuries have emphasized
significant social disparities. The pandemic has heightened a variety of these societal …

Case Report: Accidental firearm injury during trophy hunting and the role of paramedics in managing such cases at rural health posts in Nepal

A Atreya, S Nepal, A Timalsina, G Bashyal… - …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Possession of a firearm without a certified valid license is against Nepalese law. Following a
decade-long civil war, Nepal government issued stringent laws not allowing public to …

Population-based assessment of urban versus rural child fatalities from firearms in a midwestern state

AT Collings, C Wuerch, C Colgate, J Raymond… - Journal of surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Several studies have evaluated differences in firearm injury patterns among
children based on regionalization. However, many of these studies exclude patients who die …

The silent epidemic of gun injuries: Challenges and opportunities for treating and preventing gun injuries

M Delgado - 2022 - books.google.com
Gun injuries are a social and public health phenomenon that has profound consequences
on victims, their social network, and neighborhood. Deaths resulting from gun violence …

Pediatric gun violence and hospital-based violence intervention programs

ME Bernardin - Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence, 2023 - Springer
Gun violence is a crisis affecting many parts of the world, particularly the United States.
American children and adolescents suffer the highest burden of gun violence compared to …

Population density and triage of pediatric firearm injuries in a rural trauma system

TB Shaw, HC Cockrell, KT Carter… - The American …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Rural pediatric firearm injuries require regional pediatric and trauma expertise.
We evaluated county-level population density associations with transport, hospital …