ArticleEpidemiologic reviews2016
Clinician Attitudes, Screening Practices, and Interventions to Reduce Firearm-Related Injury.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Firearm Access Screening in Mental Healthcare: An Exploratory Study of the Role of Provider and Client Characteristics.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
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- Clinician-documented Firearm Access and Safety Interventions for Veterans Receiving Suicide Risk Evaluation in VA Emergency Care Settings.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Sex Differences in Life-Course Suicide Rates by State Firearm Policy Environment.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Firearm injury and young children: a critical review.BMC pediatrics · 2025Review
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- Trends and Disparities in Non-fatal Firearm Injuries among Working-Age Adults in the United States, 2000-2021.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- Association of Client and Provider Race with Approaches Pursued by Social Workers for Reducing Firearm Access.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Connecticut providers knowledge and attitudes towards use of extreme risk protection orders.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- Screening for Patient Firearm Access Among Mental Health Care Clinicians.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Language of prevention: advancing firearm safety through health literacy.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- A machine-learning prediction model to identify risk of firearm injury using electronic health records data.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Article
- Language Matters: Effective Communication and Connections for Firearm Injury Prevention.Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Firearm screening in pediatric patients.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Firearm Screening and Counseling in General Medicine Primary Care Clinics at an Academic Medical Center.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a Firearm Safe Storage Device Distribution Program at a Break the Cycle of Violence Summit.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2024Article
- Age Trends And State Disparities In Firearm-Related Suicide In The US, 1999-2020.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Firearm injury is a leading cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. We sought to systematically identify and summarize existing literature on clinical firearm injury prevention screening and interventions. We conducted a systematic search of PubMed, Web of Science, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PsycInfo, and ClinicalTrials.gov for English-language original research (published 1992-2014) on clinical screening methods, patient-level firearm interventions, or patient/provider attitudes on the same. Unrelated studies were excluded through title, abstract, and full-text review, and the remaining articles underwent data abstraction and quality scoring. Of a total of 3,260 unique titles identified, 72 were included in the final review. Fifty-three articles examined clinician attitudes/practice patterns; prior training, experience, and expectations correlated with clinicians' regularity of firearm screening. Twelve articles assessed patient interventions, of which 6 were randomized controlled trials. Seven articles described patient attitudes; all were of low methodological quality. According to these articles, providers rarely screen or counsel their patients-even high-risk patients-about firearm safety. Health-care-based interventions may increase rates of safe storage of firearms for pediatric patients, suicidal patients, and other high-risk groups. Some studies show that training clinicians can increase rates of effective firearm safety screening and counseling. Patients and families are, for the most part, accepting of such screening and counseling. However, the current literature is, by and large, not high quality. Rigorous, large-scale, adequately funded studies are needed.
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