Citation

Jiang Y, Young S, Foss K, Angeloni M, Norcini E, Viner-Brown S. R. I. Med. J. (2013) 2017; 100(2): 30-33.

Affiliation

Chief of the Center for Health Data and Analysis at the Rhode Island Department of Health, and serve as the co-PI and the program manager of RIVDRS.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Rhode Island Medical Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

28146597

Abstract

The Rhode Island Violent Death Reporting System (RIVDRS) collects comprehensive surveillance data on violent deaths to support violence prevention programs in Rhode Island and nationwide. Successful collection of firearm information is critical to understanding gun violence in public health. A recent quality improvement (QI) project was performed to improve gun information collection in the RIVDRS program. Our aim was to increase the presence of firearm model information for 2014 suicides from 50% to 80% by December 31, 2015. We used the 2014 RIVDRS data and the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle for this project. Our efforts achieved a 50% increase in the number of firearm model reporting. If we work more closely with police departments, they may understand the data importance, and be more likely to include the firearm information in their reports. We describe this process and provide lessons learned that can be generalizable to other states' violent death reporting system. [Full article available at http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal-2017-02.asp].

Language: en

Keywords

Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle; Rhode Island Violent Death Reporting System; firearm; quality improvement; suicide