Status of legal firearm possession and violent deaths: methods and protocol for a retrospective case-control study.

Autor:	Hernandez-Meier JL; Comprehensive Injury Center, School of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA jhernandez@mcw.edu.; Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Akert B; Comprehensive Injury Center, School of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Zheng C; Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Guse CE; Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Layde PM; Comprehensive Injury Center, School of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Hargarten S; Comprehensive Injury Center, School of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.; Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention [Inj Prev] 2019 Sep; Vol. 25 (Suppl 1), pp. i49-i58. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jan 31.
DOI:	10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042996
Abstrakt:	Background and Objective: This project links population data to the Wisconsin Violent Death Reporting System (WVDRS) to determine the extent to which firearm possession criteria are being followed as well as the potential impact of the adoption of proposed possession criteria. Design and Study Population: Criminal justice data for WVDRS homicide suspects and victims and suicide decedents 2008-2011 and a sample of matched control group of driver's license holders (to characterise the state population) will be abstracted. Methods: Individual legal possession statuses (prohibited/not prohibited) under each current and expanded criterion will be determined. Proportions of interest will be calculated from two-way contingency tables, and tests between groups with categorical variables (eg, criterion is met or not) will be performed with Fisher's exact or binomial proportion tests. Tests between groups with continuous variables (eg, number of misdemeanours) will be performed by zero inflated negative binomial regression. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve will be used to quantify the prediction accuracy of specific univariate or multivariate logistic model for prediction. Inverse probability weighting will be used for analyses that extend from matched controls to the general state population of license holders. Discussion: Linked data sets and partnerships are challenging, but necessary for comprehensive public health research. Results of this study will contribute knowledge on the proportion of prohibited suspects and suicide decedents that used firearms in violent deaths and, if applying expanded criteria would have increased prohibited persons. This study will also investigate risk and protective factors for being a victim of homicide. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)
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