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Physicians, Patients, and Firearms: The Courts Say “Yes”
The article explores the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's overturn of the Florida's Firearm Owner's Privacy Act, which aimed to stop physicians from discussing firearms with their patient, on the basis of First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
School-based and Community-based Gun Safety Educational Strategies for Injury Prevention
School-based and community-based programs were not found to improve the likelihood that children will not handle firearms in unsupervised situations in this study, highlighting the need for finding better strategies to educate children and families about firearm safety.
Parental Misperceptions About Children and Firearms
This paper, looking at parents' perceptions of their children's firearm access, found that parents are often unaware of their child's handling of firearms in the home.
Firearms and Dementia: Clinical Considerations
Clinical considerations for physicians when counseling patients with dementia.
Current Considerations about the Elderly and Firearms
Considering people above the age of 65 are at increased risk of suicide, this paper explains that the memory, thinking, judgement, and physical competence should play into elders' ability to have access to firearms.
Management of Agitation and Aggression Associated with Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer's disease is associated with many distressing behavioral and psychological symptoms. This paper looks beyond commonly prescribed antipsychotics to consider other pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for agitation and aggression seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Risks and Targeted Interventions: Firearms in Intimate Partner Violence
This systematic review of studies published from 1990-2014 found that if violent intimate partners have access to firearms, the intimate partner violence increases in severity and deadliness.
Guns in Intimate Partner Violence: Comparing Incidents by Type of Weapon
This study finds that guns are most often used in male-on-female threats in the context of intimate partner violence, and although less likely to result in physical harm, these threats result in victims being more likely to be frightened.
Risk Factors for Violent Death of Women in the Home
Many factors predispose women to a violent death in the home, as this study finds. Having readily available firearms in the home is associated with an increased risk of both homicide and suicide of women.
Mental Illness and Reduction of Gun Violence and Suicide: Bringing Epidemiologic Research to Policy
Although there is a popular belief that mental illness results in violence, evidence from benchmark epidemiological studies show that most people with serious mental illness are never violent but have an increased risk of suicide, which accounts for over half of firearm related deaths in the United States.
Firearm-related Hospitalization and Risk for Subsequent Violent Injury, Death, or Crime Perpetration: A Cohort Study
This study demonstrated that patients with prior firearm-related hospitalization are at greater risk for subsequent firearm-related hospitalization, making it likely that they have a heightened risk for multiple violent victimizations or crime perpetration.
Prior Misdemeanor Convictions as a Risk Factor for Later Violent and Firearm-related Criminal Activity among Authorized Purchasers of Handguns
This retrospective cohort study found that handgun purchasers with a prior criminal history were at increased risk of future criminal activity, including firearm-related crimes.