Impact of COVID-related policies on gunshot wound assault hospitalizations in the United States: a statewide time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The CDC recently reported that firearm homicide rates in the United States increased in 2020, particularly among Black/African American individuals and men 25-44 years old. It is unclear whether firearm hospitalizations also increased, and more importantly, what impact the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-related policies had. Using the North Carolina Trauma Registry, a statewide registry of trauma admissions to eighteen North Carolina hospitals, we calculated weekly GSW hospitalization rates from 1/2019 to 12/2020, overall and stratified by race-ethnicity, age, and sex. Interrupted time-series design and segmented linear regression were used to estimate changes in weekly hospitalization rates over time after (1) U.S. declaration of a public health emergency; (2) statewide St

SUBMITTER: Strassle PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9829223 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature