Social vulnerability index and firearms: How neighborhood health disparities affect trauma outcomes

Background: Firearm injuries’ association with individual-level socioeconomic risk is well described. Trauma research has suggested that neighborhood level risk factors may be associated with differences in firearm injury outcome. We analyzed the relationship between hospital length of stay (LOS), m...

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Main Authors: Sarabeth Spitzer, Manuel Castillo-Angeles, Arielle Thomas, Matthew Hey, Karan D'Souza, Molly P. Jarman, Geoffrey A. Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:Surgery in Practice and Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666262022000717