The staggering number of deaths and emergency department visits caused by firearm injuries has only grown with time. Costs associated with firearm related injuries amount to over a billion dollars annually in the United States alone, not including physician charges and postdischarge costs.

To address this epidemic, in April of 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, in collaboration with Northwell Heath and the PEACE Initiative, brought together firearm injury prevention thought leaders to explore how health systems can integrate interventions for firearm injury prevention into routine care for the purpose of improving the health of patients and communities. The workshop speakers discussed strategies for firearm injury and mortality prevention and its integration into routine care. Speakers also explored facilitators and barriers to implementation strategies, and how health systems might work to overcome those barriers.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
• PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE WORKSHOP ON FACILITATING THE INTEGRATION OF FIREARM INJURY PREVENTION INTO HEALTH CARE
• Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
  • STATEMENT OF TASK
  • OPENING REMARKS
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP
• 2. Framing the Issue: Firearm Injuries and Health Care's Role in Depolarizing a Public Health Crisis
• 3. Health Care Strategies to Reduce Firearm Injury and Mortality
  • INVESTIGATING THE PIPELINE THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, INTENTIONALITY, AND COLLABORATION
  • THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS COMMITTEE ON TRAUMA'S ISAVE INITIATIVE
  • THE BULLETPOINTS PROJECT
  • DISCUSSION
• 4. Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Hospital-Based Firearm Injury Prevention Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities
  • IMPLEMENTING FIREARM SAFETY PROMOTION PROGRAMS IN PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE
  • HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROPAGATION IN THE SOUTH: UNIQUE NEEDS, CONSIDERATIONS, AND CHALLENGES
  • TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL'S CRADLE TO GRAVE PROGRAM
  • ACCLIVUS VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES
  • DISCUSSION
• 5. Collaborating with Communities to Improve Health Care System Implementation Success and Destigmatize Gun Violence Prevention
  • THE BULLET RELATED INJURY CLINIC
  • WALK THE TALK AMERICA: AT THE INTERSECTION OF GUNS AND MENTAL HEALTH
  • LIVE FREE USA
  • DISCUSSION
• 6. Defining a Firearms Violence Prevention Road Map for Hospital and Health Systems
  • HOW THE PANELISTS BECAME INVOLVED IN FIREARM INJURY PREVENTION
  • SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
  • THINKING ABOUT EVALUATION
  • TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES TO PREVENT FIREARM VIOLENCE
• 7. Closing Comments
• A. References
• B. Workshop Agenda
• C. Statement of Task
• D. Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Moderators

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Integrating firearm injury prevention into health care: Proceedings of a joint workshop of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Northwell Health; and PEACE Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26707.

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17226/26707

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