Incentivizing Firearm Safety and Storage Counseling in the US Health Care System: a Path Forward.

While social isolation and perceptions of hopelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised alarm about increasing suicide rates, the epidemic of suicide using firearms long preceded our current predicament. Adding inquiry about access to means (i.e., firearms) could potentially be included, reserving more detailed firearm safety and storage counseling interventions for individuals deemed at intermediate or high acute risk of suicide. [Extracted from the article]