The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
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J Trauma Acute Care Surg · May 2017
Survey of American College of Surgeons Committee on trauma members on firearm injury: Consensus and opportunities.
In the United States, there is a perceived divide regarding the benefits and risks of firearm ownership. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Injury Prevention and Control Committee designed a survey to evaluate Committee on Trauma (COT) member attitudes about firearm ownership, freedom, responsibility, physician-patient freedom and policy, with the objective of using survey results to inform firearm injury prevention policy development. ⋯ Prognostic/epidemiologic study, level I; therapeutic care, level II.