TY - JOUR
AU - Bakken, Suzanne
AB - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2024, 31(10), 2163–2164 https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae245 Editorial Editorial The 2023 Annual Report from the Johns Hopkins Center for will motivate further team science and methods innovation Gun Violence Solutions reports an analysis of the 2021 fire- from our community. arm fatality data released from the Centers for Disease Con- Zhou et al. developed a predictive model to identify trol and Prevention in January of 2023. The report healthcare encounters of adult patients at increased risk of firearm injury to target screening and prevention efforts. highlighted alarming facts: Using electronic health record data of cases (fatal and non- 48 830 lives lost to gun violence—an all-time record fatal firearm injuries) and matched controls from Kaiser Per- 81% of all homicides and 55% of suicides were by firearm manente Southern California, they identified more than 170 Guns were the leading cause of death among children and predictors, including diagnoses, healthcare utilization, and teens accounting for more deaths than COVID-19, car neighborhood characteristics. They used extreme gradient accidents, or cancers boosting (XGBoost) and a split sample design to train and Gun violence was the cause of 51% of deaths for Black test a model that predicted risk 
TI - Firearm injury risk detection and prevention
JF - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
DO - 10.1093/jamia/ocae245
DA - 2024-09-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/firearm-injury-risk-detection-and-prevention-RgxwKFkfWm
SP - 2163
EP - 2164
VL - 31
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -