Kaiser Permanente’s Firearm Injury Prevention Task Force co-leads David Grossman, MD, MPH, and Bechara Choucair, MD, co-authored an article recently published in Pediatrics on the role health systems have in preventing firearm injury. The article states that in order for health professionals to be effective in protecting patients from firearm injury, they must know how to identify high-risk individuals and have the tools necessary to intervene effectively.

The April 9, 2018 announcement of the formation of the Kaiser Permanente Task Force on Firearm Injury Prevention and $2 million investment in research on clinical interventions to prevent gun violence earned significant national coverage. Coverage of the story appeared…