title: Child-to-child unintentional injury and death from firearms in the United States: what can be done?
abstract: Children are unintentionally killing and injuring other children at an alarming rate in the United States owing to the accessibility of firearms. Firearms are found in 33-40% of American households with children. Many of those firearms are stored in an unsafe manner, loaded and unlocked, leaving children vulnerable to injury. Health care professionals dedicated to the well-being of the pediatric population must take an active role in protecting our nation's children from unnecessary injury and death owing to the unsafe storage of firearms.
authors.affiliation: Post Anesthesia Care Unit, The Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO 64108-9898, USA. kglatt@cmh.edu
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Glatt
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015984:Causality; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005389:Firearms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010067:Ownership / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D010379:Peer Group; D011057:Politics; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control