by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Objective: To provide economic, epldemiologic, and clinical data on initial and subsequent hospitalizations for firearm injuries. Design: Nonconcurrent prospective study; data obtained by medical records review. Setting: Public university teaching hospital, designated...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether authorized handgun purchasers with prior misdemeanor convictions are more likely than those with no criminal history to be charged with new crimes, particularly offenses involving firearms and violence. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
We report on the firearms used in 235 suicides in Sacramento County, California, during 1983-85. Handguns were used in 69 per cent of firearm suicides–65 per cent for males, 88 per cent for females–and in all such deaths among women ages 35 and older. We...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between mortality from violent or firearm related injury and previous handgun purchase. METHODS: Case-control study of 213 466 Californians ages 21 and older who died in 1998; cases were the 4728 violent or firearm related...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether denial of handgun purchase is an effective violence prevention strategy. METHODS: Individuals denied handgun purchase because of a prior felony conviction and handgun purchasers with a felony arrest at...
