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## Background: Firearm-related injuries are the second leading cause of pediatric deaths in the us. we sought to evaluate the effectiveness of both state child access prevention (cap) laws and gun regulations on pediatric firearm mortality. we hypothesized that states with more stringent firearm legislation had lower pediatric firearm mortality. ## Study design: We used 2014-2015 firearm mortality data from the web-based injury statistics query and reporting system, 2014 brady scores (used to quantify stringency of state gun regulations) and cap laws. state-level covariates were obtained from government sources, including the bureau of labor statistics and the department of education. spearman rank correlations and linear regression were used to determine the relationship between overall pediatric firearm mortality and gun regulations. we also examined the relationship between gun regulations and firearm-related homicides and suicides. ## Results: Annually, there were approximately 2,715 pediatric firearm fatalities among children; 62.1% were homicides and 31.4% suicides. there was a moderate negative correlation between states' firearm legislation stringency and overall pediatric

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Author

Madhavan, Sriraman; Taylor, Jordan S.; Chandler, Julia M.; Staudenmayer, Kristan L.; Chao, Stephanie D.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)