<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Firearm Injury Rates Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Prevalence Study</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods: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.</mods:abstract><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>McCarthy, Madison S</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">creator</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Ranney, Megan L</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">creator</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Megan Ranney</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">advisor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role><mods:affiliation>Brown University. Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice</mods:affiliation></mods:name><mods:name type="corporate"><mods:namePart>Brown University. Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">research program</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00530468"><mods:topic>Rhode Island Hospital</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01167224"><mods:topic>Violence</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01082238"><mods:topic>Public health</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01204599"><mods:topic>Rhode Island</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/"><mods:topic>Injury</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/"><mods:topic>prevention</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00879585"><mods:topic>Coronaviruses</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00949436"><mods:topic>Gunshot wounds</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:language><mods:languageTerm type="text" authority="iso639-2b">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:typeOfResource>still image</mods:typeOfResource><mods:genre authority="aat">posters</mods:genre><mods:originInfo><mods:place><mods:placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">riu</mods:placeTerm></mods:place><mods:place><mods:placeTerm type="text">Providence, RI</mods:placeTerm></mods:place><mods:publisher>Brown University</mods:publisher><mods:dateCreated keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">2020</mods:dateCreated></mods:originInfo><mods:physicalDescription><mods:extent>1 poster</mods:extent><mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin></mods:physicalDescription><mods:identifier type="doi">10.26300/xfm9-0497</mods:identifier></mods:mods>