by boxcar-admin | Sep 13, 2018
The SafERteens Study demonstrated the efficacy of a brief intervention (BI) for violence on changing attitudes, self-efficacy, and reducing violent behaviors, peer victimization, and violence-related consequences among adolescents in the emergency department (ED). The...
by boxcar-admin | Sep 13, 2018
Although individual-level associations between injury and benzodiazepine use for older adults are well established, the effects of new coverage for benzodiazepines in 2013 on population-level injury trends in older adults on Medicare Part D has not been studied. We...
by boxcar-admin | Sep 13, 2018
Prescription opioid overdose represents a public health crisis. A number of efforts have been implemented to address opioid prescribing and opioid risk mitigation strategies for prescribers, but relatively few efforts have sought to address this problem directly with...
by boxcar-admin | Sep 13, 2018
The objectives of this pilot study are to develop parametric head FE models accounting for the geometric variations in the population, and conduct a feasibility study using population-based simulations to evaluate biomechanical factors and impact exposure factors...
by boxcar-admin | Sep 13, 2018
In our early work examining loss of balance (LOB) events in at-home activities, we found that LOBs occur nearly daily. These events occur not only in walking activities (trips, slips) but also in more stationary activities like reaching, bending, and changing...
