{"id":1910,"date":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/severity-of-nonfatal-firearm-injuries-increased-1993-to-2014\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"severity-of-nonfatal-firearm-injuries-increased-1993-to-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/09\/severity-of-nonfatal-firearm-injuries-increased-1993-to-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Severity of Nonfatal Firearm Injuries Increased, 1993 to 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Findings based on analysis of 22 years of inpatient hospital data<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, March 9, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The severity of hospitalized firearm injuries increased significantly from 1993 to 2014, according to a study published online Feb. 13 in <i>Trauma Surgery &#038; Acute Care Open<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Bindu Kalesan, M.P.H., Ph.D., from Boston University, and colleagues analyzed the overall, age-, sex- and intent-specific trends in the injury severity of firearm hospitalizations from 1993 to 2014 using Nationwide Inpatient Sample data inpatient admissions (648,662 hospitalizations).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that firearm injury severity demonstrated a significant annual increase of 1.4 percent and was driven by annual hospitalization increases among young adults (annual percent change [APC], 1.4 percent), older adults (APC, 1.5 percent), female (APC, 1.5 percent), and male (APC, 1.4 percent). Similar annual increases were seen by intent: 1.4 percent for assault\/legal injuries, 1.4 percent unintentional, 1.5 percent intentional self-harm, and 1.4 percent undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The severity of hospitalized firearm injuries increased significantly from 1993 to 2014,&#8221; the authors write. &#8220;This annual increase reflects a move towards hospitalization of more serious injuries, and outpatient management of less serious injuries across the board, suggesting a mounting burden on the U.S. health care system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tsaco.bmj.com\/content\/3\/1\/e000139\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings based on analysis of 22 years of inpatient hospital data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}