Patients' Perceptions of the Role of Physicians in Questioning and Educating in Firearms Safety: Post-FOPA Repeal Era.

CONCLUSIONS: Firearms safety is a difficult but important public health matter that requires significant intervention to help prevent future firearms incidents. This study supports physicians' efforts to help educate patients about the dangers of firearms, along with proper firearms storage techniques, showing that patients are largely open to this discussion. We propose that training of physicians in strategies for initiating clinical discourse and addressing firearms safety is needed. PMID: 30608630 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30608630?dopt=Abstract

Source: Southern Medical Journal - January 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: South Med J Source Type: research