Twenty-site study to assess adverse events in Canadian hospitals

B Sibbald - 2002 - Can Med Assoc
World Conference on Injury Prevention. The discussions, which covered everything from
access to small arms to sexual violence, seemed to come at an opportune time. Not only had …

District hospital based injury data—are they an option in a developing country?

J Razzak, D Marsh, S Stansfield - Injury Prevention, 2002 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Having a gun in the home appears to increase the risk of homicide victimization1 and
perpetration. 2 Some strategies to prevent gunshot deaths focus on firearm design and …

International comparisons: useful or odious?

SP Baker - Injury prevention, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Comparisons are odious, according to Shakespeare, but seldom are they odious to
epidemiologists unless they involve unlike categories. The two new papers providing data …

Inner-city gunshot wounds–10 years on

M Davies, M Kerins, E Glucksman - Injury, 2011 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: In 1997, Injury published one of the first research papers to document the
incidence and characteristics of civilian gunshot wounds in a UK urban environment. Since …

Firearms injury prevention and gun control in Canada.

A Chapdelaine, P Maurice - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association …, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Firearms cause more than three deaths daily in Canada. The rate of mortality from gunshot
wounds varies among provinces and territories, ranging from 5.7 to 21.2 per 100,000 …

Firearm-related injuries in Canada: issues for prevention.

A Chapdelaine, E Samson… - CMAJ: Canadian …, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We reviewed the available data on firearm-related injuries in Canada to suggest strategies
for prevention in the context of the proposed amendments to the Criminal Code (Bill C-17) …

Comparison of injury case fatality rates in the United States and New Zealand

R Spicer, T Miller, J Langley… - Injury …, 2005 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Objective: To compare injury case fatality rates in the United States (US) with New Zealand
(NZ) to guide future information collection, research, and evaluation. Design: Using NZ …

Comparing the US and Australian experience following a mass shooting

JS Vernick, M Stevenson - Injury prevention, 2015 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
On 14 December 2012, a young man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut, USA. He brought with him several guns, including two handguns and an AR15 …

A call to arms: the emergency physician, international perspectives on firearm injury prevention and the Canadian gun control debate

H Fisher, A Drummond - The Journal of emergency medicine, 1999 - Elsevier
There are more than seven million firearms in Canada and approximately 1400 firearm-
related deaths per year. These figures are far greater than those for most European …

Are medical societies developing a standard for gun injury prevention?

MM Longjohn, KK Christoffel - Injury Prevention, 2004 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Context: Following heightened gun violence in the 1990s, many medical societies in the
United States adopted policies on the topic. Objective: Identify points of firearm violence …