Health care providers who counsel their patients about firearm safety and prevention could prevent future injury or death, including suicides, violent injuries and unintentional injuries resulting from firearms, according to a University of Michigan report.
In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at U-M’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention make the case for including counseling for firearm safety as a regular part of patient care and offer their report as a resource for clinicians and health care systems.
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