Death and long-term disability after gun injury: a cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gun injury accounts for substantial acute mortality worldwide and many others survive with lingering disabilities. We investigated whether additional health losses beyond mortality can also arise for patients who survive with long-term disability.

Methods

We conducted a population-based individual patient analysis of adults injured by firearms who had received emergency medical care in Ontario, Canada, from Apr. 1, 2002, to Apr. 1, 2019. Longitudinal cohort analyses were evaluated through deterministic linkages of individual electronic patient files. The primary outcome was death or subsequent application for long-term disability in the years after hospital discharge.

Results

In total, 8313 patients were injured from firearms, of which 3020 were injured fro

SUBMITTER: Raza S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7850230 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature