Asking For Your Advice:
How to Spread Awareness About Methods of Firearm Injury Prevention

How to Best Inform the Medical Community About Firearm Safety Opportunities

Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center has created an interactive toolkit that details three interventions to protect yourself and your loved ones from firearm injury or suicide. We want to share this information with medical professionals to help inform their patients about these specific safety strategies:

Firearm Safe Storage provides an effective way to keep you and your family safe. The toolkit includes an interactive map to help people in crisis identify temporary firearm storage options outside the home.
Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) allow families or law enforcement to petition a judge to restrict individual possession and purchase of firearms using a civil order.
Voluntary Waiver of Firearm Rights (Do-Not-Sell) lets people voluntarily and confidentially restrict immediate access to firearm purchase.

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* 1. Our question is, how can we best share this information with physicians and their staff?

Social Media

Direct mailings (snail mail)

Flyers etc., dropped off at hospital/clinic

CME/CNE opportunities

Information sessions in person

Virtual Information sessions

Other (please specify your suggested method)

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* 2. What do you perceive as the biggest reason medical persons do not discuss firearm injury prevention?

Worry about offending patients by bringing up firearm related issues

There's not enough time during an exam to broach this topic

Don't see it as their role

Don't think it is appropriate

Don't think they are allowed to ask about guns

Don't want to bring up a politically explosive issue

Don't know enough about the topic to even ask about it

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Would you be willing to assist in sharing Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center information with your colleagues and staff?

Yes

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* 4. If 'yes' to the above, what is the best way to contact you to provide you with the most current firearm injury prevention information?

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* 5. Please provide the below contact information:

Name

Email Address

Asking For Your Advice: How to Spread Awareness About Methods of Firearm Injury Prevention

How to Best Inform the Medical Community About Firearm Safety Opportunities

Question Title

* 1. Our question is, how can we best share this information with physicians and their staff?

Question Title

* 2. What do you perceive as the biggest reason medical persons do not discuss firearm injury prevention?

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* 3. Would you be willing to assist in sharing Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center information with your colleagues and staff?

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* 4. If 'yes' to the above, what is the best way to contact you to provide you with the most current firearm injury prevention information?

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* 5. Please provide the below contact information:

Asking For Your Advice:
How to Spread Awareness About Methods of Firearm Injury Prevention