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Statement of Task
An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a 1-day public workshop to be conducted jointly with Northwell Health and 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.
The workshop will explore a broad range of topics including:
- The state of evidence on health care strategies to reduce firearm injury and mortality
- Barriers to implementing health care strategies:
- Patient/survivor perceptions and barriers to discussing firearm injury prevention with clinical team members
- Provider perspectives
- Factors that facilitate the implementation of health care strategies
- How to adapt and implement public health and harm-reduction strategies across a variety of health care settings (emergency departments, surgery, primary care settings)
- The need for diverse perspectives in shaping health care firearm injury harm-reduction strategies:
- Patient/survivors
- Owners of firearms
- Community-based voices (community-based organizations)
- 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
A planning committee will plan and organize the workshop, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines. The proceedings will be subject to an appropriate review procedure prior to release.
