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Patient-Centered Injury Prevention
Scope
Our multi-disciplinary group conducts research to prevent injuries through:
- Communication and connection
- Informed decision-making
- Efficient and effective interventions in healthcare settings
Current Areas of Research
- Firearm suicide
- Emergency department care of suicidal adults
- Firearm-related injury
Online Educational Tools/Programs
- Lock to Live (for suicidal adults – addresses safer storage of firearms and other means for suicide)
- Firearm Life Plan (for firearm owners – addresses organizing and planning personal firearm inventories)
- Safety in Dementia (for caregivers – addresses firearm access, driving, and home safety)
- Pause to Protect (for military, veterans, and the firearm community – program to encourage secure firearm storage)
- Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative
Our Team
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Emmy Betz, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator
Emily Greenway, MPH
Program Manager
Chelsea Hoffman, MPH
Pause to Protect Project Coordinator
Research & Network
American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research
Colorado School of Public Health
Injury and Violence Prevention Center
Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
VA Eastern Colorado Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
Firearm suicide prevention
Depression & Anxiety: Lethal means access and assessment among suicidal emergency department patients
Injury Prevention: 'Lock to Live': Development of a Firearm Storage Decision Aid to Enhance Lethal Means Counselling and Prevent Suicide
Firearms and dementia
JAMA News: Firearms and Dementia: "A Big Deal and a Tough Issue’”
Annals of Internal Medicine: Firearms and Dementia: Clinical Considerations
Annals of Internal Medicine: The effect of the “Safety in Dementia” online tool to assist decision-making for caregivers of persons with dementia and access to firearms: a randomized trial
Older driver safety
Traffic Injury Prevention: “Are you still driving?" Meta-synthesis of patient preferences for communication with healthcare providers
Journal of General Internal Medicine: “I Wish We Could Normalize Driving Health:" A Qualitative Study of Clinician Discussions with Older Drivers
Injury Epidemiology: Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers (LongROAD): study design and methods
Journal of American Geriatric Society: "Is it time to stop driving?": A randomized clinical trial of an online decision aid for older drivers
See the full list of publications for Dr. Emmy Betz, MD, MPH