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Hospital-admitted injury attributable to alcoholTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland 20705, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:104-12. 2012..No comparable data exist for injuries admitted to hospital. Data on the injury risks of heavy drinkers relative to other drinkers also are sparse...- Exact method for computing absolute percent change in a dichotomous outcome from meta-analytic effect size: improving impact and cost-outcome estimatesTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD, USA
Value Health 14:144-51. 2011..Consequently, inaccurate assumptions underpin most meta-analytic estimates of the gain resulting from an intervention (and of its cost effectiveness). This article develops an exact formula without these assumptions... - Retail alcohol monopolies, underage drinking, and youth impaired driving deathsTed Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Accid Anal Prev 38:1162-7. 2006..To explore associations of state retail alcohol monopolies with underage drinking and alcohol-impaired driving deaths... - Effectiveness and benefit-cost of peer-based workplace substance abuse prevention coupled with random testingTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 125 Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Accid Anal Prev 39:565-73. 2007..The findings suggest that peer-based programs buttressed by random testing can be cost-effective in the workplace... - Adolescent suicidality: who will ideate, who will act?Ted R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:425-35. 2005..3 times greater among respondents with one, 8.8 with two, 18.3 with three, 30.8 with four, 50.0 with five, and 227.3 with six. A count of problem behaviors offers a reliable way to identify suicide risk... - Societal costs of underage drinkingTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 125, Calverton, Maryland 20705 3102, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:519-28. 2006..Previous studies did not break out costs of alcohol problems by age... - Costs of alcohol and drug-involved crimeTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11701 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Prev Sci 7:333-42. 2006..Effective efforts to reduce the abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs should reduce costs associated with crime... - Cost-outcome analysis of booster seats for auto occupants aged 4 to 7 yearsTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Dr, Suite 125, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Pediatrics 118:1994-8. 2006..Booster seats reduce crash-related injury. Their use is mandatory for vehicle occupants aged 4 to 7 years in most of the United States. This study estimates the injury cost savings attributable to booster seat use... - Substance abuse and the uninsured worker in the United StatesDeborah M Galvin
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
J Public Health Policy 28:102-17. 2007..Workers in countries with universal health insurance but inadequate treatment capacity may face similar problems to uninsured workers in the US... - Alcohol involvement in hospital-admitted nonfatal suicide actsTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705 3111, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 40:492-9. 2010..Lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 from 21 could potentially raise alcohol-involved suicide hospitalizations among youth by an estimated 27%... - Cost savings from a sustained compulsory breath testing and media campaign in New ZealandTed Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Accid Anal Prev 36:783-94. 2004..It appears CBT is best implemented in conjunction with broader community-centered efforts to reduce drunk-driving... - Injury risk among medically identified alcohol and drug abusersT R Miller
Public Services Research Institute, Calverton, Maryland, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 25:54-9. 2001..This study estimates the excess risk of medically treated and hospitalized nonoccupational injury for people under age 65 with medically identified substance abuse problems and private health care coverage... - Highway crash costs in the United States by driver age, blood alcohol level, victim age, and restraint useT R Miller
National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, MD 20785, USA
Accid Anal Prev 30:137-50. 1998.... - Who is driving when unrestrained children and teenagers are hurt?T R Miller
National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, MD 20785, USA
Accid Anal Prev 30:839-49. 1998.... - Costs of occupational injuries to teenagers, United StatesT R Miller
National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, MD 20785, USA
Inj Prev 4:211-7. 1998..This paper estimates the incidence and costs of teenage occupational injuries by severity in the United States... - Costs of alcohol-related crashes: New Zealand estimates and suggested measures for use internationallyT R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 33:783-91. 2001.... - Costs of gunshot and cut/stab wounds in the United States, with some Canadian comparisonsT R Miller
National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, MD 20785, USA
Accid Anal Prev 29:329-41. 1997..S. $495 in the U.S. vs U.S. $180 in Canada. Per gun, however, the costs are higher in Canada, Gunshot wound rates rise linearly with gun ownership... - Costs of poisoning in the United States and savings from poison control centers: a benefit-cost analysisT R Miller
National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, Maryland, USA
Ann Emerg Med 29:239-45. 1997..Despite their proven benefits, many poison control centers are unstably funded and financially strapped, in part because the federal government pays far less than its fair share of center costs... - Cost-outcome analysis in injury prevention and control: eighty-four recent estimates for the United StatesT R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Landover, Maryland 20785, USA
Med Care 38:562-82. 2000..The objectives of this study were to review cost-outcome analyses in injury prevention and control and estimate associated benefit-cost ratios and cost per quality-adjusted life-year... - Substance-use problems: are uninsured workers at greater risk?Geetha M Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900, Calverton, Maryland 20705 3111, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:915-23. 2008..This study examined how problem drinking and drug use and their related treatment received by workers varied by health insurance coverage and employment characteristics... - The impact of poison control centers on poisoning-related visits to EDs--United States, 2003Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:310-5. 2008..This study analyzes the association between center usage rates and the rates of nonadmitted visits to emergency departments (EDs) for poisoning... - Occupational injury costs and alternative employment in construction tradesGeetha M Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
J Occup Environ Med 49:1218-27. 2007..Our results also provide indirect evidence on the cost exposure of alternative construction workers such as independent contractors, on-call or day labor, contract workers, and temporary workers... - Crash costs in the United States by crash geometryEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, Maryland, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 38:644-51. 2006..MAIN OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to estimate the costs per crash for three police-coded crash severity groupings within 16 selected crash geometry types and within two speed limit categories (<or=45 and >or=50 mph)... - Crash costs by body part injured, fracture involvement, and threat-to-life severity. United States, 2000Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 36:415-27. 2004..This long-standing practice results in inaccurate cost-benefit analyses that typically overestimate benefits. This problem is more acute when old published costs adjusted for inflation are used rather than the recent costs... - Costs of occupational injury and illness across statesGeetha Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:1084-95. 2004..Southern and especially Western states were disproportionately represented in the high cost per worker list. A significant amount of the variation in cost per worker across states was explained by the composition of industries... - Impact of a workplace peer-focused substance abuse prevention and early intervention programRebecca S Spicer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland 20705, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:609-11. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The findings support the implementation of peer intervention programs as a means to reduce workplace injuries... - The potential impact of poison control centers on rural hospitalization rates for poisoningEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Dr, Suite 125, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Pediatrics 118:2094-100. 2006..This study tested the hypothesis that underutilization of poison control centers is associated with increased rates of hospitalizations attributable to poisonings in rural areas... - Comprehensive and human capital crash costs by maximum police-reported injury severity within selected crash typesEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 48:251-63. 2004..69 and $1.16 million per crash, respectively). The annual cost of police-reported run-off-road collisions, which include both rollovers and object impacts, represented 34% of total costs... - Are booster seats needed: comparing occupant outcomes ages 4-7 versus 8-13Ted Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 46:249-59. 2002..If anything, they may fare better... - Costs of occupational injuries in construction in the United StatesGeetha M Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton MD, 11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900, Calverton, MD 20705, United States
Accid Anal Prev 39:1258-66. 2007.... - The employer costs of motor vehicle crashesEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 13:145-50. 2006..Traffic safety programmes can reduce the fringe benefit bill without reducing the benefits offered to employees. Eliminating alcohol-impaired and unrestrained driving would save employers $15.2 billion annually... - Effectiveness of child safety seats vs safety belts for children aged 2 to 3 yearsEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:65-8. 2007..To compare the effectiveness of child safety seats and lap-shoulder belts in rear passenger vehicle seats for 2- to 3-year-old crash survivors... - Incidence and cost of nonfatal farm youth injury, United States, 2001-2006Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
J Agromedicine 16:6-18. 2011..Around 9.3% of the cost was medical costs, 37.2% work and household productivity loss, and 53.5% quality of life loss... - The impact of occupational injury reduction on the U.S. economyEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland 20705, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:719-27. 2006..This study is a first attempt to measure the impact of occupational injury reduction on national economic output, gross domestic product, national income, and employment by using an input-output model of the U.S. economy... - Costs of occupational injury and illness within the health services sectorGeetha Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, USA
Int J Health Serv 35:343-59. 2005..The hospital industry was the third most expensive of 313 U.S. industries. Costs of occupational injury and illness in the health services industry were high and varied across occupation, industry, disease, race, and gender... - Issues in using state hospital discharge data in injury control research and surveillanceBruce A Lawrence
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD, United States
Accid Anal Prev 39:319-25. 2007..We conclude that it is possible to combine multiple states' data if researchers are aware of the challenges they may encounter. In order to capture all injury-related cases, it is important to scan secondary diagnosis fields... - Random alcohol testing reduced alcohol-involved fatal crashes of drivers of large trucksCecelia B Snowden
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900, Calverton, Maryland 20705 3102, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:634-40. 2007..This study examined the impact of random alcohol testing, implemented on August 1, 1994, on the likelihood that the driver of a large truck involved in a fatal motor vehicle crash was alcohol-involved... - Employer costs of alcohol-involved injuriesEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland 20705, USA
Am J Ind Med 50:136-42. 2007..This study estimates the annual cost of alcohol-related injuries to employers in 1998-2000... - A benefit-cost analysis of the Harlem hospital injury prevention programRebecca S Spicer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Inj Control Saf Promot 11:55-7. 2004 - Costs of large truck-involved crashes in the United StatesEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 36:801-8. 2004..Multiple combination trucks had the highest cost per crash (US$ 88,483). The crash costs per 1000 truck miles however, were US$ 157 for single unit trucks, US$ 131 for single combination trucks, and US$ 63 for multiple combinations... - Blood alcohol content (BAC)-negative victims in alcohol-involved injury incidentsDavid T Levy
University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 20878, USA
Addiction 97:909-14. 2002..To understand better how often BAC-negative victims suffer fatal and non-fatal alcohol-involved injuries... - The costs of unintentional home injuriesEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:88-94. 2005..Unintentional home injuries impose significant, but little reported, costs to society. The most tangible are medical and indirect costs. A less-tangible cost is the value of lost quality of life due to impairment or death... - Evaluation of the Utah student injury reporting systemRebecca S Spicer
Children s Safety Network Economics and Insurance Resource Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
J Sch Health 72:47-50. 2002.... - Worker substance use, workplace problems and the risk of occupational injury: a matched case-control studyRebecca S Spicer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:570-8. 2003..This study examines the tendency toward problem behavior as an explanation for the relationship between problem substance use and occupational injury... - Reducing injuries among Native Americans: five cost-outcome analysesEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 35:631-9. 2003..All projects yielded positive benefit-cost ratios. The net cost per quality adjusted life years was less than zero (i.e. the monetary savings exceeded project costs) for all but one of the projects... - Costs of medically treated craniofacial conditionsCecelia B Snowden
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Public Health Rep 118:10-7. 2003..Policy makers can use this cost model to compare the impact of different conditions, to target areas for reducing costs, and to allocate appropriate health resources... - Relative risk of injury and death in ambulances and other emergency vehiclesL R Becker
Public Services Research Institute, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11, 710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 35:941-8. 2003..Family members accompanying ambulance patients should ride in the front-seat of the ambulance... - Alcohol involvement in burn, submersion, spinal cord, and brain injuriesDavid T Levy
University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Sci Monit 10:CR17-24. 2004..Alcohol is involved in many injuries, but estimates of this involvement vary considerably. Most information pertains to deaths although most injuries are nonfatal... - Prevalence of long-term disability from traumatic brain injury in the civilian population of the United States, 2005Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
J Head Trauma Rehabil 23:394-400. 2008..To estimate the prevalence of long-term disability associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the civilian population of the United States... - Pedestrian and pedalcyclist injury costs in the United States by age and injury severityTed R Miller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 48:265-84. 2004..Separate lower limb testing is needed for younger children. Testing for torso/vertebral column injury of adults also seems desirable... - An estimate of the U.S. Government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuriesJ Paul Leigh
Departmetn of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Medicine School, University of California at Davis, 95616, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:10-8. 2004..We concluded that there was substantial undercapture in the BLS Annual Survey, some due to the excluded categories of government workers and the self-employed, as well as some due to underreporting... - Accurately assessing elderly fall deaths using hospital discharge and vital statistics dataSteven A Koehler
Allegheny County Coroner s Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, USA
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 27:30-5. 2006.... - Costs of occupational injury and illness across industriesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 30:199-205. 2004..This study has ranked industries using estimated total costs and costs per worker... - Medical costs and productivity losses due to interpersonal and self-directed violence in the United StatesPhaedra S Corso
College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:474-482. 2007..From 2003 to 2005, the lifetime medical costs and productivity losses associated with medically treated injuries due to interpersonal and self-directed violence occurring in the United States in 2000 were assessed... - Estimates of the incidence and costs associated with handlebar-related injuries in childrenFlaura K Winston
TraumaLink, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 10th Floor, 34th Street and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:922-8. 2002..Requirements for safer handlebar designs may provide one avenue to achieve a health and economic benefit... - Assessing the burden of injuries: competing measuresDelia Hendrie
School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Inj Control Saf Promot 11:193-9. 2004..This paper compares the different types of injury burden measures in common use and examines criteria that may be useful to consider when selecting between alternative measures... - A comparison of the case-control and case-crossover designs for estimating medical costs of nonfatal fall-related injuries among older AmericansEric A Finkelstein
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Med Care 43:1087-91. 2005..In this study, costs for a series of hospitalized and nonhospitalized fall-related injuries were computed using the 2 approaches to allow for a direct comparison of the results... - Characteristics of motorcycle-related hospitalizations: comparing states with different helmet lawsJeffrey H Coben
Department of Emergency Medicine, Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, P O Box 9151, WV 26506 9151, USA
Accid Anal Prev 39:190-6. 2007..This study further illustrates and substantiates the increased burden of hospitalization and long-term care seen in states that lack universal motorcycle helmet use laws... - Costs differences across demographic groups and types of occupational injuries and illnessesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95817, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:845-53. 2006..Little is known about cost differences for demographic groups or across occupational injuries and illnesses... - Trauma associated with acute myocardial infarction in a multi-state hospitalized populationRovshan M Ismailov
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, P O Box 19122, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Int J Cardiol 105:141-6. 2005..AMI following non-penetrating injury has been shown to carry significant morbidity and mortality... - Pregnancy-associated assault hospitalizationsHarold B Weiss
Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Obstet Gynecol 100:773-80. 2002..To determine the rate of pregnancy-associated hospitalized assaults in a multistate population and whether they have any increased assault risk versus nonpregnant counterparts... - Medical costs of fourteen occupational illnesses in the United States in 1999J Paul Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, TB168, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 838, United States
Scand J Work Environ Health 29:304-13. 2003..This study estimated the annual medical costs associated with 14 occupational illnesses in the United States in 1999...
Research Grants
- MEDICALLY TREATED AND FATAL SUICIDE ACTS: NUMBER & COSTTed Miller; Fiscal Year: 2002..We expect the model to suggest the estimated annual US suicide death toll is 5%-7% above reported levels. (5) To modify an existing injury cost model to more accurately cost suicide acts and apply the model to national data. ..
- UNDERSTANDING OCCUPATIONAL INJURY AND ILLNESS TRENDSTed Miller; Fiscal Year: 2002..We also will pilot test use of an input-output model to assess the impact of occupational injury/illness on the economy. ..