Survey of Washington clinicians' willingness to use and preferences related to extreme risk protection orders.

ABSTRACT: Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) temporarily restrict access to firearms if an individual is deemed a significant risk of harm to themselves or others. Some states allow clinicians to initiate ERPO petitions for their patients and a new Justice Department model statute recommends clinicians should be eligible petitioners. Washington clinicians cannot currently file ERPOs independently. This article presents the results of an electronic survey of all actively licensed Washington physicians and advanced registered nurse practitioners in 2021 to gauge clinicians' familiarity, willingness, barriers, facilitators, and preferences for initiating ERPOs by counselling a patient or patient's family, contacting law enforcement, or filing independently. 3021 Clinicians responded. 75.2% were not

SUBMITTER: Gause EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9287355 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature