New research suggests that around 20 children in the US are hospitalized every day after being injured by firearms, and approximately 6% of these children die from their injuries. This is according to a study published online in the journal Pediatrics.
The research team, led by Dr. John Leventhal of the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut, analyzed data of children and adolescents under the age of 20 who had been admitted to a hospital in the US during 2009.
From this, the investigators found that 7,391 hospitalizations occurred as a result of firearm injuries, and 453 of these patients died while in hospital.
Almost 400 of these hospitalizations were in children younger than 10 years old.
Assaults were to blame for 4,559 of the hospitalizations. Although suicide attempts accounted for the fewest hospitalizations (270), injuries from these most often resulted in death.
For children younger than 10, three-quarters of hospitalizations were from unintentional or accidental injuries.
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