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Applying Behavioral Economics to Enhance Safe Firearm Storage
K Hoskins, U Roy Paladhi, C McDonald, A Buttenheim
Pediatrics. 2020 Mar;145(3):e20192268.

Rationale for Inclusion: Begins to approach methods for effective counseling to improve safe storage.

CAVEAT: Needs empirical study

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Points of Influence for Lethal Means Counseling and Safe Gun Storage Practices
CW Runyan, A Brooks-Russell, ME Betz
J Public Health Manag Pract. Jan/Feb 2019;25(1):86-89.

Rationale for Inclusion: Reviews several important factors surrounding access to lethal means, counseling by health professionals, and collaborative efforts with the community to work toward suicide prevention

CAVEAT: Review article

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Storage Practices of US Gun Owners in 2016
CK Crifasi, ML Doucette, EE McGinty, DW Webster, CL Barry 
Am J Public Health. 2018 Apr;108(4):532-537.

Rationale for Inclusion: National online survey of firearm storage practices and rationale for them.

CAVEAT: Response bias of online survey

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Law, Ethics, and Conversations between Physicians and Patients about Firearms in the Home
AD McCourt, JS Vernick
AMA J Ethics. 2018 Jan 1;20(1):69-76.

Rationale for Inclusion: Provides legal and ethical perspective on physician counselling on firearm ownership

CAVEAT: Some laws have changed

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Gun storage practices and risk of youth suicide and unintentional firearm injuries.
Grossman DC, Mueller BA, Riedy C, Dowd MD, Villaveces A, Prodzinski J, Nakagawara J, Howard J, Thiersch N, Hurruff R.
JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):707-14.

Rationale for inclusion: Case-control study demonstrating association of safe firearm storage with decreased rates of unintentional injury and/or suicide by firearm in young adults.

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