Lee S Friedman

Summary

Affiliation: Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Analysis of ethnic disparities in workers' compensation claims using data linkage
    Lee S Friedman
    School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 54:1246-52. 2012
  2. ncbi Dose-response relationship between in-hospital mortality and alcohol following acute injury
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA The Social Policy Research Institute, Skokie, IL 60076, USA Electronic address
    Alcohol 46:769-75. 2012
  3. ncbi A retrospective cohort study of suspected child maltreatment cases resulting in hospitalization
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Injury 43:1881-7. 2012
  4. ncbi Social-environmental factors associated with elevated body mass index in a Ukrainian cohort of children
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Int J Pediatr Obes 4:81-90. 2009
  5. ncbi Real-time surveillance of illicit drug overdoses using poison center data
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
    Clin Toxicol (Phila) 47:573-9. 2009
  6. ncbi Long-term effects of repealing the national maximum speed limit in the United States
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
    Am J Public Health 99:1626-31. 2009
  7. ncbi Workers' compensation costs among construction workers: a robust regression analysis
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 51:1306-13. 2009
  8. ncbi Analysis of Hymenoptera stings reported to the Illinois Poison Center
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    J Med Entomol 47:907-12. 2010
  9. ncbi A case-control study of severe physical abuse of older adults
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 59:417-22. 2011
  10. ncbi Ethnic disparities in traumatic occupational injury
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 50:350-8. 2008

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  1. ncbi Analysis of ethnic disparities in workers' compensation claims using data linkage
    Lee S Friedman
    School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 54:1246-52. 2012
    ..The overall goal of this research project was to assess ethnic disparities in monetary compensation among construction workers injured on the job through the linkage of medical records and workers' compensation data...
  2. ncbi Dose-response relationship between in-hospital mortality and alcohol following acute injury
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA The Social Policy Research Institute, Skokie, IL 60076, USA Electronic address
    Alcohol 46:769-75. 2012
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  3. ncbi A retrospective cohort study of suspected child maltreatment cases resulting in hospitalization
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Injury 43:1881-7. 2012
    ..The purpose of this study was to (1) describe differences in the type of injuries and illnesses of children hospitalized for abuse and neglect and (2) assess the relationship between in-hospital mortality and child maltreatment...
  4. ncbi Social-environmental factors associated with elevated body mass index in a Ukrainian cohort of children
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Int J Pediatr Obes 4:81-90. 2009
    ....
  5. ncbi Real-time surveillance of illicit drug overdoses using poison center data
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
    Clin Toxicol (Phila) 47:573-9. 2009
    ..The most recent fentanyl outbreak illustrated the need for identifying and establishing effective and responsive real-time surveillance tools to monitor drug overdoses in the United States...
  6. ncbi Long-term effects of repealing the national maximum speed limit in the United States
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
    Am J Public Health 99:1626-31. 2009
    ..We examined the long-term effects of the 1995 repeal of federal speed limit controls on road fatalities and injuries in fatal crashes...
  7. ncbi Workers' compensation costs among construction workers: a robust regression analysis
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 51:1306-13. 2009
    ..Workers' compensation data are an important source for evaluating costs associated with construction injuries...
  8. ncbi Analysis of Hymenoptera stings reported to the Illinois Poison Center
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    J Med Entomol 47:907-12. 2010
    ..Poison center data are a valuable resource for the surveillance of poisoning in humans, but our findings show that the data can be used to monitor changes in nonhuman species...
  9. ncbi A case-control study of severe physical abuse of older adults
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 59:417-22. 2011
    ..To characterize the severity and outcome of traumatic injuries suffered by victims of elder abuse, describe the characteristics of the perpetrators, and identify risk factors associated with severe traumatic elder abuse...
  10. ncbi Ethnic disparities in traumatic occupational injury
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 50:350-8. 2008
    ..We use the Illinois Trauma Registry to evaluate ethnic disparities among the occupational traumatic injuries occurring in the State of Illinois between 1997 and 2003...
  11. ncbi Excessive and disproportionate advertising in peer-reviewed journals
    Lee S Friedman
    The Social Policy Research Institute, Skokie, Illinois 60076, USA
    Int J Occup Environ Health 12:59-64. 2006
    ..There is a need to define and apply standards for excessive and disproportionate advertising...
  12. ncbi Raised speed limits, case fatality and road deaths: a six year follow-up using ARIMA models
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Inj Prev 13:156-61. 2007
    ..Motor vehicle crash data came from the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel...
  13. ncbi Occupational injury surveillance of traumatic injuries in Illinois, using the Illinois trauma registry: 1995-2003
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 49:401-10. 2007
    ..Trauma registries continue to be underutilized for surveillance, despite providing data on the most severe injuries with a level of detail not available in national data sets or workers' compensation files...
  14. ncbi The impact of OSHA recordkeeping regulation changes on occupational injury and illness trends in the US: a time-series analysis
    Lee S Friedman
    University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Occup Environ Med 64:454-60. 2007
    ..However, major changes to the OSHA recordkeeping standard occurred in 1995 and 2001. The authors assessed the relation between changes in OSHA recordkeeping regulations and the trend in occupational injuries and illnesses...
  15. ncbi Anthropometric, environmental, and dietary predictors of elevated blood cadmium levels in Ukrainian children: Ukraine ELSPAC group
    Lee S Friedman
    Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
    Environ Res 102:83-9. 2006
    ..Whole-blood cadmium levels observed in this group of Ukrainian children appear to be similar to those reported in other Eastern European countries...
  16. ncbi Analysis of suspected suicides using poison center data
    Shile Liang
    University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA
    Arch Suicide Res 15:185-94. 2011
    ..This study provides a current and detailed description of substances used primarily in non-fatal suicide attempts...
  17. ncbi Creatine phosphate kinase elevations signaling muscle damage following exposures to anticholinesterases: 2 sentinel patients
    Lee S Friedman
    The Social Policy Research Institute, Skokie, Illinois 60076, USA
    Arch Environ Health 58:167-71. 2003
    ....
  18. ncbi Relationship between conflicts of interest and research results
    Lee S Friedman
    The Social Policy Research Institute, Skokie, Illinois 60076, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 19:51-6. 2004
    ..To date, research regarding the influence of conflicts of interest on the presentation of findings by researchers has been limited...
  19. ncbi Death and injury from motor vehicle crashes: a tale of two countries
    Elihu D Richter
    Hebrew University Hadassah School of Community Medicine and Public Health, Injury Prevention Center, Jerusalem, Israel
    Am J Prev Med 29:440-9. 2005
    ..To determine why road deaths dropped by 33.9% in the United Kingdom, compared to 6.5% in the United States, between 1990 and 1999...
  20. ncbi RE: a rebuttal: secret ties to industry and conflicting interests in cancer research
    Lennart Hardell
    Am J Ind Med 50:697-8; author reply 699-700. 2007
  21. ncbi Secret ties to industry and conflicting interests in cancer research
    Lennart Hardell
    Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
    Am J Ind Med 50:227-33. 2007
    ..The potential for distorting the epidemiological assessments of hazard and risk through paid consultants, pretending to be independent, is not exclusive to the tobacco industry...
  22. ncbi Cancer risks in naval divers with multiple exposures to carcinogens
    Elihu D Richter
    Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel
    Environ Health Perspect 111:609-17. 2003
    ..Early toxic effects in marine life predicted later risks for cancer in divers...