Elinore Kaufman and Kit Delgado wrote a viewpoint paper for JAMA's Special Issue on Firearm Violence, which summarizes current data on firearm injuries in the US, discusses the limitations of available data sources, and proposes measures for a comprehensive system to...
Gina South and colleagues about the role of health system in closing the racial wealth gap, noting its inextricable link to health outcomes. Read the full publication
Terry Richmond, Marta Bruce, and colleagues examined how neighborhood characteristics impact the recovery of Black men following a traumatic injury. Severity of PTSD and depressive symptoms was associated with neighborhood crime/violence/vacancy and neighborhood...
Sara Jacoby led a commentary that argues "recidivism" as a less than ideal metric for evaluating success in tertiary firearm injury prevention, as well as the insinuation it makes about racialized criminality and how it reinforces stigma. Read the full publication
Chris Morrison, Sara Jacoby, and colleagues add a layer of understanding to the impact of historical racist redlining practices on present day firearm violence by assessing the relationship in different cities and the dose-responsive relationship on a zip code level....
Maggie Lowenstein, Jeanmarie Perrone, Kit Delgado, Anish Agarwal, and other colleagues explored how patients receive naloxone and the accompanying provider conversations (or lack thereof). Read the full publication
Zack Meisel and colleagues examine patient perceptions of two different methods of communicating opioid risk: a probability tool versus a narrative-enhanced probability tool (with past patient videos). Read the full publication
Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and colleagues demonstrate elevated anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents with acute concussion, compared to nonconcussed peers, suggesting that depression screening should be incorporated into adolescent concussion care. Read...
Carmen Alvarez and colleagues explore the differences in self-care behaviors and attitudes among patients with hypertension who did and did not experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), revealing that ACE survivors may need additional resources for depression...
Joel Fein and colleagues used a nationally representative sample to assess the relationship between gun or knife violence exposure and depression, providing evidence for violence exposure as a cause of depression. Read the full publication
Elinore Kaufman and a host of PISC Scholars past and present, as well as other colleagues, demonstrated the association between longer ground transport time and greater odds of death due to interpersonal firearm violence, a potentially modifiable factor to improve...
George Demiris and colleagues set out to develop a measure for individual engagement with the Facebook platform. Read the full publication