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Year:: 2020
Contributor:: McCarthy, Madison S (creator); Ranney, Megan L (creator); Megan Ranney (advisor); Brown University. Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (research program)
Genre:: posters
Subject:: Rhode Island Hospital; Violence; Public health; Rhode Island; Injury; prevention; Coronaviruses; Gunshot wounds
Extent:: 1 poster
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/xfm9-0497

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Abstract:: Firearm injuries are a public health epidemic in the United States. Patients with firearm injuries frequently present to emergency departments (ED) and level I trauma hospitals for care of acute firearm injury. Since the beginning of the COVID- 19 Pandemic, the population that experiences common emergent health issues (stroke, heart attack, etc) have decreased in their volume of visits to the ED. Using a retrospective prevalence study, we will examine the number of patients that present to a network of Rhode Island hospitals (including a level 1 trauma center) that receive an ICD-10 diagnosis of firearm injury. We will utilize an independent sample t-test analysis to compare injury rate differences between the same time periods In 2019 and 2020. We hypothesize that there has been an uptick in the rate of ED visits for firearm injuries before and after the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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McCarthy, Madison S., and Ranney, Megan L., "Firearm Injury Rates Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Prevalence Study" (2020). Summer Research Symposium. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/xfm9-0497

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Summer Research Symposium

Each year, Brown University showcases the research of its undergraduates at the Summer Research Symposium. More than half of the student-researchers are UTRA recipients, while others receive funding from a variety of Brown-administered and national programs and fellowships and go …
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Firearm Injury Rates Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Prevalence Study