Home Gun Safety Queries in Well-Child Visits

Carole H Stipelman; Greg Stoddard; Kyle Bata; Bhanu Muniyappa; Elly Trepman; Elizabeth Smith

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.3845

Home Gun Safety Queries in Well-Child Visits

JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Dec 1;173(12):1205-1208. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.3845.

Authors

Carole H Stipelman¹, Greg Stoddard², Kyle Bata³, Bhanu Muniyappa¹, Elly Trepman^{4

5}, Elizabeth Smith¹

Affiliations

¹ University Pediatric Clinic, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
² Study Design and Biostatistics Center, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
³ DaVita Inc, Denver, Colorado.
⁴ University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile.
⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Abstract

This study evaluates the association of adding questions about gun storage in patient households in the electronic health record with documentation of gun storage in the context of mass shootings.

MeSH terms

Child
Firearms / standards*
House Calls / trends*
Humans
Incidence
Male
Retrospective Studies
Safety
Survival Rate / trends
United States / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot / prevention & control*

Grants and funding

UL1 TR002538/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States