Integrating Firearm Injury Prevention into Health Care Proceedings of a Joint Workshop of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Northwell Health; and PEACE Initiative (2022) / Chapter Skim
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. Approximately 40 percent of individuals admitted to the emergency department for gunshot wounds experience relatively minor physical injuries and are treated and released from the emergency department, but the other 60 percent of nonfatal gun injury patients admitted to emergency departments face more severe gunshot injuries and are hospitalized (Kalesan et al., 2018)
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The board convened an ad hoc committee and charged it with the following statement of task:2 An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engi neering, and Medicine will host a 1-day public workshop to be conducted jointly with Northwell Health and the PEACE Initiative. The workshop will bring together firearm injury prevention thought leaders to explore how hospitals, health systems, and the health care industry at large can integrate interventions for firearm injury prevention into routine care for the purpose of improving the health and safety of patients and communities.
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• Key elements of a health care industry road map for overcoming barriers to integrating harm-reduction and public health strategies around firearm injury prevention into routine care OPENING REMARKS The workshop began with opening remarks from the president of the National Academy of Medicine and representatives from Northwell Health and The PEACE Initiative, the two organizations sponsoring the workshop. National Academy of Medicine In his introductory remarks to the resulting workshop, Victor Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, called firearm deaths and injury one of the most pressing health challenges facing the nation.
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We have an obligation to be involved and try to make a difference." Northwell's response was to establish the Center for Gun Violence Prevention to organize Northwell's advocacy initiatives and help the health system focus on influencing public policy, public opinion, and elected officials, as well as educating the public about the extent of firearm death and injury.4 Northwell has also held three national forums on gun violence and established a learning collaborative that now includes more than 500 health care professionals from organizations nationwide who are working together to make firearm death and injury prevention a priority. "If you are in the health care field and you are interested in health and public health, then you have to be interested in what to do about gun violence," said Dowling.
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, with plans to expand the screening to other hospitals. Dowling encouraged other health care organizations to not only do the same, but also learn more and implement violence intervention programs within the com munities they serve.
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Hicks, Kyleanne Hunter, Sandeep Kapoor, Peter Masiakos, Megan Ranney, Joseph Sakran, and Chethan Sathya. The workshop was broadcast live over the web, and workshop presentations were subsequently posted to the web along with links to the videos of the talks.6 This publication summarizes the workshop's presentations and discussions that occurred throughout the workshop's four panel discussions; Panel 1 6 Available at https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/04-25-2022/facilitating-the-integration of-firearm-injury-prevention-into-health care-a-workshop (accessed August 10, 2022)
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Appendix A contains the references, Appendix B contains the workshop agenda, Appendix C contains the workshop statement of task, and Appendix D provides biographical sketches of the workshop speakers and moderators. The workshop summary was drafted by rapporteur Joe Alper in collaboration with National Academies staff members Rose Marie Martinez and Dara Rosenberg as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop, and the National Academies does not endorse or verify the statements.
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