Constant Lethality of Gunshot Injuries From Firearm Assault: United States, 2003-2012.
Objectives. To investigate the validity of the apparent downward trend in the national case-fatality rate for gunshot wounds from assault. Methods. We reanalyzed the estimated annual number of nonfatal firearm injuries the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System reported from 2003 to 2012. We...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 107; no. 8; pp. 1324 - 1329 |
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