Prevalence and Correlates of Firearm Screening and Safety Counseling in Pediatric Primary Care.

ABSTRACT: Firearm-related injuries remain the leading cause of mortality in children in the United States. It is not well-characterized how often clinicians perform firearms access screening and safety counseling. We examined documentation of these services in a cross-sectional study of well child exams (WCEs) at a tertiary academic center in Southeast Michigan. Overall, we found that clinicians documented screening in 25,469 of 32,582 WCE encounters due to categorical Pediatrics clinicians doing so in 73.8% of encounters; Family Medicine and Internal Medicine-Pediatrics clinicians documented some form of screening in nearly all (> 99%) encounters. Clinicians documented counseling in 21.8% of encounters with Family Medicine clinicians lagging the other two specialties (8.2% versus 23.9% and 18.4% fo

SUBMITTER: Ladines-Lim JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12474701 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature