Study debunks claim of greatly improved survival rate for gunshot victims
Sunday, June 25, 2017 - 20:32
in Health & Medicine
The survival rate of US gunshot victims has not shown a marked improvement, as other recent studies have suggested, according to new research. The purported increase in survival rate had been credited to improvements in emergency treatment and medical care of critically injured patients. But on close analysis, researchers found problems in the way data was collected and coded.