The Hidden Mortality of Pediatric Firearm Violence
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Christina M. Theodorou, Carl A. Beyer, Melissa A. Vanover, Ian E. Brown, Edgardo S. Salcedo, Diana L. Farmer, Shinjiro Hirose, Alana L. Beres
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Introduction
: Firearms and motor vehicle collisions (MVC) are leading causes of mortality in children. We hypothesized that firearm injuries would have a higher mortality than MVCs in children and a higher level of resource utilization
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: Trauma patients
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