Patient-Reported Firearm Access Prior to Suicide Death

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jan 4;5(1):e2142204. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.42204.

Julie E Richards^{1

2}, Jennifer M Boggs³, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar^{4

5}, Elena Kuo¹, Marian E Betz⁶, Jennifer F Bobb¹, Gregory E Simon^{1

7

8}

¹ Kaiser Permanente Washington Heath Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
² Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle.
³ Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, Aurora.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle.
⁵ Firearm Injury and Policy Research Program, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora.
⁷ Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
⁸ Kaiser Permanente Washington Department of Mental Health & Wellness, Seattle, Washington.

Abstract

This case series examines how individuals who died by suicide responded to a survey question regarding access to firearms before death.