Firearm Injury and the Healthcare System

This work studies firearm injury and homicide and the ways in which the healthcare system plays a role in the prevention of and response to gun violence. Publications and relevant media are included below.

Relevant Publications

Healthcare Indicators and Firearm Homicide: An Ecologic Study - Formica M, Rajan S, Simons M, Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research 2019

Clustered Arrivals of Firearm - Injured Patients in an Urban Trauma System: A Silent Epidemic - Beard JH, Resnick S, Maher Z, Seamon MJ, Morrison CN, Sims CA, Smith RN, Sjoholm LO, Goldberg AJ, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2019

Firearm Assault in Philadelphia, 2005-2014: A Comparison of Police and Trauma Registry Data - Kaufman E, Holena DN, Yang WP, Morrison CN, Jacoby S, Seamon M, Sims C, Wiebe DJ, Beard JH, Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2019

A Multi-Decade Joinpoint Analysis of Firearm Injury Severity - Kalesan B, Zuo Y, Xuan Z, Siegel MB, Fagan J, Branas C, Galea S, Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2018

The Hidden Epidemic of Firearm Injury: Increasing Firearm Injury Rates During 2001 - 2013 - Kalesan B, Adhikarla C, Pressley JC, Fagan J, Xuan Z, Siegel MB, Galea S, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2017

Race and Ethnicity, Neighborhood Poverty and Pediatric Firearm Hospitalizations in the United States - Kalesan B, Vyliparambil MA, Bogue E, Villarreal MD, Vasan S, Fagan J, DiMaggio CJ, Stylianos S, Galea S, Annals of Epidemiology, 2016

Firearm - Related Hospitalizations and In-Hospital Mortality in the United States, 2000-2010 - Kalesan B, French C, Fagan J, Fowler D, Galea S, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2014

Media

Op-Med - December 2018 Gun Research: A Pediatrician’s Call to Action