2015
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-015-1894-8
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Racial/Ethnic Specific Trends in Pediatric Firearm-Related Hospitalizations in the United States, 1998–2011

Abstract: There was an overall decline in rates of pediatric FHs in this time period driven by a decline in unintentional-FHs. However there was an increase in assault FH among black children during this same time period.

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“…Adolescent age, male sex, black race/ethnicity, and public insurance status were independent risk factors for mortality after surviving trauma. Importantly, these variables were also those that were associated with being a victim of assault in our sample, mirroring those described in prior studies . On the other hand, our study did not detect additional independent risk posed separately by exposure to FA or NFA nor a dose‐dependent association with mortality risk by assault‐exposed cohort.…”
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confidence: 89%
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“…Adolescent age, male sex, black race/ethnicity, and public insurance status were independent risk factors for mortality after surviving trauma. Importantly, these variables were also those that were associated with being a victim of assault in our sample, mirroring those described in prior studies . On the other hand, our study did not detect additional independent risk posed separately by exposure to FA or NFA nor a dose‐dependent association with mortality risk by assault‐exposed cohort.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Prior research on pediatric firearm‐related injuries has focused on the clinical features and demographics of children cared for in the clinical setting, highlighting that these children tend to be adolescent males and socioeconomically disadvantaged and from racial and ethnic minority groups . These factors have also been associated with risk of subsequent firearm injury among pediatric survivors of both assault and firearm injury .…”
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“…In previous studies, it has been documented that unintentional firearm injuries are more common than assault and/or homicide firearm injuries in children and adolescents 0 to 14 years of age. 4,7 However, at least 1 other study in which researchers specifically evaluated both fatal and nonfatal firearm injury rates in this age group revealed that firearm homicide and assault rates were higher than unintentional death and injury rates. 5 Of note, different authors have used different data sources, which may at least partially account for this discrepancy.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…An Alabama study found that African American children were 2.5 times more likely than Caucasian children to be victims of firearm injury (Senger, Keijzer, Smith, & Muensterer, 2011). Firearm hospitalizations also increased for African American children between the years of 1998 and 2011 (Kalesan, Dabic, Vasan, Stylianos, & Galea, 2016). In 2014, the CDC reported that homicide was the leading cause of death for African Americans ages 10 to 24 (CDC, 2016b).…”
Section: Children and Firearm Injurymentioning
confidence: 99%