Hospital Visits in the U.S. for Firearm-Related Injuries, 2009

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This Statistical Brief presents information from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) about hospital visits for firearm-related injuries in 2009. ED visits and inpatient hospital stays are identified using the external cause of injury codes (E Codes). We examine the characteristics of firearm injuries in terms of manner and intent related to patient characteristics such as age, gender, expected payer, and geographic differences. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.