Philadelphia hospitals responded to equivalent of 54 mass shooting-type events in 11 years

(Temple University Health System) A research team led by Temple's Dr. Jessica H. Beard, set out to calculate the number and analyze trends in the rates of firearm-injured patients (FIP) transported at clustered time intervals to Philadelphia-area hospitals over an 11-year period. They also examined FIP demographics and mortality, time of day of FIP transport and level of treating trauma center over the same study period, comparing these characteristics between FIP clusters and the overall FIP po...