Gunshot victims at a major level I trauma center: a study of 343,866 emergency department visits. | Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy

Moore DC, Yoneda ZT, Powell M, Howard DL, Jahangir AA, Archer KR, Ehrenfeld JM, Obremskey WT, Sethi MK. Gunshot victims at a major level I trauma center: a study of 343,866 emergency department visits. The Journal of emergency medicine. 2013 Mar;44(44). 585-91. PMID: 22995579 [PubMed]

Abstract

Disturbing trends regarding the sex, age, and race of gunshot victims have been reported in previous national studies; however, gunshot trends have not been well documented in individual cities in the southeastern United States.