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Associations between nonfatal firearm injuries and risk of subsequent suicide among veteran VA users: a retrospective cohort study - Carlson KF, Gilbert TA, Maxim L, Hooker ER, Shull S, DeBeer B, DeFrancesco S, Denneson L.
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States (US), particularly among Veterans. Nonfatal firearm injuries may indicate subsequent risk of suicide and, thus, provide important opportunities for prevention in emergency departments and... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Association between women's exposure to intimate partner violence and self-reported health outcomes in New Zealand - Mellar BM, Hashemi L, Selak V, Gulliver PJ, McIntosh TKD, Fanslow JL.
IMPORTANCE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly recognized as a contributing factor for long-term health problems; however, few studies have assessed these health outcomes using consistent and comprehensive IPV measures or representative popula... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Direct costs of healthcare among patients with deliberate self-harm: a pilot study from a tertiary care hospital in south India - Barnabas R, Yadav B, Jayakaran J, Gunasekaran K, Johnson J, Pichamuthu K, Iyadurai R.
BACKGROUND: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) in developing nations has a significant impact on health and economic conditions of patients and families. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective study aims to study the cost of hospitalization and the fact... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Determining who healthcare providers screen for firearm access in the United States - Bond AE, Moceri-Brooks J, Rodriguez TR, Semenza D, Anestis MD.
Healthcare providers are well positioned to screen for firearm access to reduce risk of suicides, yet there is a limited understanding of how often and for whom firearm access screening occurs. The present study examined the extent to which providers scree... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

An evidence-based approach to forensic life-threat assessments using spleen injuries as an example - Wingren CJ.
INTRODUCTION: During the judicial process of addressing violent crime, a forensic practitioner may need to assess whether an inflicted injury should be considered life-threatening. This could be important for the classification of the crime. To some extent... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

How fear of violence drives intergroup conflict: evidence from a panel survey in India - Schutte S, Ruhe C, Sahoo N.
Earlier research on ethnic and religious conflict has identified fear as an important motivation. While theoretically sound, this expectation has never been tested at larger scales in ongoing episodes of political violence. Instead, conceptual progress has... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Hate begets warmth? The impact of an anti-Muslim terrorist attack on public attitudes toward Muslims - Shanaah S, Yogeeswaran K, Greaves L, Bulbulia JA, Osborne D, Afzali MU, Sibley CG.
This article examines the impact of the March 15, 2019 far-right terrorist attack against Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand on public opinion toward Muslims. It also examines whether the impact of the attack varies for individuals across the political s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Evaluating cost savings from truck caravanning - Liatsos V, Giampouranis D, Golias M, Mishra S, Hourdos J, Nalim R, Frohlich MT, Nicholas C.
Truck platooning and related autonomous vehicle coordination concepts have been proposed as sustainable ways to increase profits and improve service quality. Recently the concept of truck caravanning, a hybrid truck platooning with only one truck driver re... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Recommendations to improve the nature and extent of relationships among organizations within a network to enhance supports for transgender survivors of sexual assault - Du Mont J, Coelho M, Lebel N, Friedman Burley J, Kosa SD, MacDonald S.
CONTEXT: To enhance the provision of comprehensive supports to transgender (trans) survivors of sexual assault, a structurally marginalized group with complex care needs, we developed an intersectoral network of trans-positive health care and community org... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Rare, fatal pulmonary fat embolism after acupuncture therapy: a case report and literature review - Xu L, Tan X, Chen X, Du S, Yue X, Qiao D.
BACKGROUND: Death from nontraumatic pulmonary fat embolism associated with minor soft tissue contusion, surgery, cancer chemotherapy, hematologic disorders and so on has been reported. Patients often present with atypical manifestations and rapid deteriora... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Psychosocial and psychodynamic considerations informing factitious disorder - Dickerman AL, Jim énez XF.
Factitious disorder is a condition in which patients deceitfully present themselves as injured or ill in the absence of obvious external reward. It is difficult to diagnose and treat, and little rigorous evidence exists in the literature. While larger stud... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) anchored to one's own suicide attempt - Stanley IH, Tock JL, Boffa JW, Hom MA, Joiner TE.
OBJECTIVE: Emerging evidence indicates that a nontrivial proportion of suicide attempt (SA) survivors develop clinically significant posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms related to their suicide attempt (SA-PTSD). However, SA-PTSD is rarely assess... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Protecting survivors of intimate partner violence under the Cures Act - Shum M, Ryus C, Chen P, Powers E, Jubanyik K, Tiyyagura G.
Survivors of intimate partner violence and their children often seek care in emergency departments (EDs) after intimate partner violence exposure. Abusers may interfere with health care by accessing the electronic health records of victims legally, as a pr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Predictors of completed suicides among emergency department visits for attempted suicides - Weldeslase TA, Akinyemi OA, Silvestre J, Li S, Green KM, Hughes K, Williams M, Cornwell EE.
The objective of this study was to identify predictors of mortality among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with attempted suicides. METHODS: We analyzed data on emergency department (ED) visits for attempted suicides... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Potential sensitive period effects of maltreatment on amygdala, hippocampal and cortical response to threat - Zhu J, Anderson CM, Ohashi K, Khan A, Teicher MH.
Childhood maltreatment is a leading risk factor for psychopathology, though it is unclear why some develop risk averse disorders, such as anxiety and depression, and others risk-taking disorders including substance abuse. A critical question is whether the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news