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Inquirer: Why the tourniquet, a relic from the earliest days of medicine, is back amid the gun violence epidemic

Inquirer: Why the tourniquet, a relic from the earliest days of medicine, is back amid the gun violence epidemic

News

Elinore Kaufman was quoted in an Inquirer article about the utility of tourniquets amidst the gun violence epidemic in Philadelphia. A separate, parallel article of the same journal told readers how to fashion and use a tourniquet to save a life. Read the full...
Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Reassault and Homicide: A Practitioner’s Guide to Making Sense of Predictive Validity Statistics

Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Reassault and Homicide: A Practitioner’s Guide to Making Sense of Predictive Validity Statistics

Publications

Millan AbiNader and colleagues examine a key issue for social workers intervening on intimate partner violence: understanding the likelihood of future reassault and potential lethality. This practice update aims to help practitioners understand the utility and...
A manifesto on explainability for artificial intelligence in medicine

A manifesto on explainability for artificial intelligence in medicine

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John Holmes and colleagues wrote a position paper articulating the need (and a framework) for “explainability” in the artificial intelligence that is employed in medicine. With diversity in their roles and perspectives, the authors discuss some of the...
The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data

The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data

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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...
Rethinking “recidivism” in firearm injury research and prevention

Rethinking “recidivism” in firearm injury research and prevention

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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...
Costs Associated With Assault Injuries and Future Opportunities for Violence Research, Prevention, and Intervention in the US

Costs Associated With Assault Injuries and Future Opportunities for Violence Research, Prevention, and Intervention in the US

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Sara Jacoby calls researchers, policymakers, advocates, and health systems to action in an invited commentary on the burden of assault injuries. After a recent contribution by Barry et al, Jacoby says now is the time to shift attention to the implementation and...
Compounding Trauma: the Intersections of Racism, Law Enforcement, and Injury

Compounding Trauma: the Intersections of Racism, Law Enforcement, and Injury

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PISC Trainee Joanelle Bailey and PISC Senior Scholars Sara Jacoby and Elinore Kaufman published a narrative review that explores the major impacts of law enforcement on health, its intersections with US structural racism, and their joint impacts on traumatic injury...
Fox29 Save Our Streets: PHIGHT Network community listening session

Fox29 Save Our Streets: PHIGHT Network community listening session

News

The PHIGHT Network’s community listening session, Together We Can, on March 29th, 2022 was covered by Fox29 in their Save Our Streets segment. The event was hosted by The PHIGHT Network (an initiative of the West/Southwest Collaborative, of which Penn Injury...
Acute pain and self-directed discharge among hospitalized patients with opioid-related diagnoses: a cohort study

Acute pain and self-directed discharge among hospitalized patients with opioid-related diagnoses: a cohort study

Publications

Patients with substance abuse disorders are at risk for self-directed hospital discharge, which often leads to adverse health outcomes. A recent study featuring PISC Senior Scholar Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC, evaluates the relationship between acute pain...
Optimizing Opioid Prescriptions for Patients in the Emergency Department—How Much Is Almost Never?

Optimizing Opioid Prescriptions for Patients in the Emergency Department—How Much Is Almost Never?

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Led by PISC postdoctoral fellow Austin Kilaru, MD, and Senior Scholar Margaret Lowenstein, MD, this commentary piece discusses the impact of emergency department (ED) opioid prescriptions on the US opioid crisis. It questions the conditions in which a patient...
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