+ The financial burden of injury-related hospitalizations to an Alaska Native health system
- Author:
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Chandler, B. A. / Berger, L. R.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Alaska Med
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Ethnicity, Local, Medical, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Alaska, Firearms, Health Care Costs, Suicide, Violence
The authors evaluated how much the Tanana Chiefs Conference in Interior Alaska, a Native Alaskans’ health care system, paid for injury-related hospitalizations from 1994-1998. They identified 511 cases...
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+ The association of handgun ownership and storage practices with safety consciousness
- Author:
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Coyne-Beasley, T. / McGee, K. S. / Johnson, R. M. / Bordley, W. C.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gun Carrying, Local, Medical
- Keywords:
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Accident Prevention, Firearms, Infant, UNITED States, Wounds
The authors used survey data of 221 adults who kept a firearm in the house and had brought a child (younger than 7 years) into an emergency department to evaluate whether parents who are otherwise safety-conscious...
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+ Drugs and Firearm Deaths in New York City
- Author:
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Galea, S. / Ahern, J. / Tardiff, K. / Leon, A. C. / Vlahov, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Local, Medical
- Keywords:
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Drug Use, Firearms, New York City, medical examiner
The authors used Medical Examiner records data from New York City to examine the role of drugs in the incidence of firearm deaths from 1990 to 1998. From toxicology reports, they found that half of all...
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+ Are "accidental" gun deaths as rare as they seem? A comparison of medical examiner manner of death coding with an intent-based classification approach
- Author:
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Schaechter, J. / Duran, I. / De Marchena, J. / Lemard, G. / Villar, M. E.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatrics
- Topics:
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Homicide, Local, Medical, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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intent-based classification, medical examiner, pediatric firearm death, unintentional gun death
The authors compared the proportion of pediatric unintentional gun deaths in Miami-Dade County based on manner of death coding by a medical examiner (ME) and an intent-based classification (IBC) for all...
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+ Weapons detection at two urban hospitals
- Author:
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Simon, H. K. / Khan, N. S. / Delgado, C. A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatr Emerg Care
- Topics:
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Law Enforcement, Local, Medical, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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confiscation, hospital, pediatric, weapon detection
The authors examined the type of weapons that were confiscated from an urban pediatric and its affiliated general hospital during the first 8 months of 2000, after weapons detectors at the children's...
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