Gunshot Wounds in Children Account For $270 Million in Emergency Room and Inpatient Charges Annually
“While mass shootings garner significant media and social attention, unfortunately they’re not a good reflection of the actual burden of firearm-related injuries. In our study, we found that for every 100,000 teenagers and children arriving to the emergency department, 11 come for a gun-related injury. In other words, this represents over 8,300 children and teenagers each year who come to the emergency department to be treated for a gunshot wound,” says Faiz Gani, M.D., a research fellow in the Johns Hopkins Surgery Center for Outcomes Research and one of the report’s authors.
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Approximately 86 percent of patients in the study group were male with an average age of 15. Throughout the study period, males were five times more likely to visit the ED for a firearm-related injury than females, and males ages 15–17 saw the highest incidence, with 85.9 ED visits per 100,000 people. The most common reasons for injury included assault (49 percent), unintentional injuries (38.7 percent) and suicides (2 percent). Overall, 6 percent of these teenagers and children died in the ED or as an inpatient after their injury.
The average ED and inpatient charges were $2,445 and $44,966 per visit, respectively, resulting in approximately $270 million in annual firearm-related injury charges.
“Our study not only highlights the substantial clinical burden and loss of life associated with gunshot wounds, but also reiterates the large economic and financial consequences of these injuries to patients and their families,” said Gani. “Unfortunately, these numbers are likely the tip of the iceberg as we were unable to account for subsequent costs for long-term therapy / rehabilitation or expenses associated with lost work for the parents. As a system we need to do much better and can only improve if we focus our efforts to understand these injuries and develop policies that prevent these injuries to our children.”
Contacts and sources:
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Citation: Trends in the Incidence of and Charges Associated With Firearm-Related Injuries Among Pediatric Patients, 2006-2014
Faiz Gani, Joseph K. Canner. . JAMA Pediatrics, 2018; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3091 .
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2018/10/gunshot-wounds-in-children-account-for.html
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That says to me you have 4200 attempted child murderers who used a firearm, quite possibly drugged psycotic teens who go on to a life in prison after ensuring many more lives are ruined. Take away the guns and they would stab or gang beat someone to death, says there is genuine need for medication control or a very inclusive US army penal batallion to work off the behaviour under military law, the type which lets you reoffend only once.