- Determining objective injury prevention priorities
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J. / Nance, M. L. / Branas, C. C.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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FIREARMS accidents, PREVENTION, PSYCHIC trauma, UNITED States, Wounds & Injuries
Data from the period 2000-2004 were obtained from the National Trauma Data Bank, and four injury prevention priority scores were computed: injury prevention priority score, mortality priority score, hospital...
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- Guns in the home: risky business
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- LDI Issue Brief
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gender, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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household firearm, risk factor, woman
This brief summarizes two of the author’s previously published case-control studies that combine data from the National Mortality Followback Survey and the National Health Interview Survey. Women with...
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- Homicide and suicide risks associated with firearms in the home: a national case-control study
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Ann Emerg Med
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Gender, Homicide, Suicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Method, case-control, gun, homicide at home, suicide at home
The author examined the effect of having a gun in the home on the likelihood for adults to be killed or to commit suicide, using data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey and the 1994 National...
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- Do partners with children know about firearms in their home? Evidence of a gender gap and implications for practitioners
- Author:
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Coyne-Beasley, T. / Baccaglini, Lorena / Johnson, Renee M. / Webster, B. / Wiebe, D. J.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Pediatrics
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Gender, Storage
- Keywords:
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Accident Prevention, Adult, Child, North Carolina, Ownership
Interviews of 76 partners were conducted in an examination of the level of agreement on household firearms and storage practices among partners living in the same home. More men (80%) reported the presence...
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- Studying Homicide in the Home and How Guns Are Kept
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J. / Sorenson, S. B.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Homicide, Storage
- Keywords:
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Accidents, Firearms, HOMICIDE, Safety, UNITED States
In this letter to the editor, the authors report on their use of survey data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS) to assess if the risk of homicide in one’s home was associated with...
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- Bias when using dead controls to study handgun purchase as a risk factor for violent death
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J. / Branas, C. C.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Inj Prev
- Topics:
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Social Science, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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bias, methodology, non-violent death, violent death
This brief note discusses a possible bias that may result when case-control studies of violent death use as controls people who died from non-violent causes (rather than people who did not die from violent...
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