ArticleThe American surgeon2020
Self-Inflicted Gun Violence Injuries Epidemic in the United States: A Closer Look at the Nation's Well-Being.
Article in The American surgeon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It carries an expression of concern. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
- Race/ethnicity on firearm & self-injuries during COVID-19 using TQIP data.Surgery open science · 2026Article
- Self-Harm and Interpersonal Violence-Related Injuries: Retrospective Analysis of the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Programs Data.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Are Facial Gunshot Wounds More Fatal When They Are Self-Inflicted or Other-Inflicted?Craniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction · 2022Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Gun-related injuries are a hotly debated sociopolitical topic in the United States. Annually, more than 33 million Americans seek heathcare services for mental health issues. These conditions are the leading cause of combined disability and death among women and the second highest among men. Our study's main objective was to identify cases of self-inflicted penetrating firearm injuries with reported pre-existing psychiatric conditions as defined in the 2013-2016 National Trauma Data Standard. The 2013-2016 Research Data Sets (RDSs) were reviewed. Cases were identified using the ICD-9 external cause codes 955-955.4, and ICD 10th Edition Clinical Modification external cause codes X72-X74. Odds ratios were calculated, and categorical data were analyzed by using the chi-squared test, with significance defined as
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