Pediatric Firearm Injury Emergency Department Visits From 2017 to 2022: A Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Pediatric firearm injuries increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, but recent trends in firearm injury emergency department (ED) visits are not well described. We aimed to assess how pediatric firearm injury ED visits during the pandemic differed from expected prepandemic trends.

Methods

We retrospectively studied firearm injury ED visits by children <18 years old at 9 US hospitals participating in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network Registry before (January 2017 to February 2020) and during (March 2020 to November 2022) the pandemic. Multivariable Poisson regression models estimated expected visit rates from prepandemic data. We calculated rate ratios (RRs) of observed to expected visits per 30 days, overall, and by

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10842699 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature