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Depiction of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances in G-rated animated feature filmsK M Thompson
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 107:1369-74. 2001..To quantify and characterize the depiction of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances in G-rated animated feature films...- Content and ratings of mature-rated video gamesKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:402-10. 2006.... - Evaluation of response scenarios to potential polio outbreaks using mathematical modelsKimberly M Thompson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Risk Anal 26:1541-56. 2006..Finally, long after oral poliovirus vaccine cessation the choice of target age groups during a response represents an important consideration... - Addicted media: substances on screenKimberly M Thompson
KidsRisk Project, Harvard School of Public Health and Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 14:473-89, ix. 2005..This article demonstrates the widespread and overwhelming presence of substances in the media viewed by youth and highlights reviews that discuss the potential impacts of these depictions... - Retrospective cost-effectiveness analyses for polio vaccination in the United StatesKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, MA 02115, USA
Risk Anal 26:1423-40. 2006.... - Development and consideration of global policies for managing the future risks of poliovirus outbreaks: insights and lessons learned through modelingKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Risk Anal 26:1571-80. 2006..This analytical journey has provided several key insights and lessons learned that will be useful to future analysts involved in similar complex decision-making processes... - Eradication versus control for poliomyelitis: an economic analysisKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Lancet 369:1363-71. 2007..Challenges in the four endemic areas combined with continuing demands for financial resources for eradication have led some to question the goal of eradication and to suggest switching to a policy of control... 
The risks, costs, and benefits of possible future global policies for managing poliovirusesKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Third Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1322-30. 2008..We assessed the costs, risks, and benefits of possible future major policy decisions on vaccination, surveillance, response plans, and containment following global eradication of wild polioviruses...- Validating benefit and cost estimates: the case of airbag regulationKimberly M Thompson
Harvard University, Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Risk Anal 22:803-11. 2002..Future validation studies of health, safety, and environmental regulation should focus on validation of benefit and risk estimates, areas where we found significant error, as well as on cost estimates... - Violence in E-rated video gamesK M Thompson
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, 718 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 286:591-8. 2001..Children's exposure to violence, alcohol, tobacco and other substances, and sexual messages in the media are a source of public health concern; however, content in video games commonly played by children has not been quantified... - The case for cooperation in managing and maintaining the end of poliomyelitis: stockpile needs and coordinated OPV cessationKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medscape J Med 10:190. 2008..Achieving successful eradication of a disease requires global cooperation to obtain a shared goal. Coordination of the endgame may seem an obvious requirement for success, but that does not ensure that cooperation will occur... - How much do kids count in corporate board rooms? Results from the first survey of Fortune 1000 companiesKimberly M Thompson
Harvard School of Public Health, Departments of Health Policy and Management and Maternal and Child Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MedGenMed 5:37. 2003.... - The role of bath seats in unintentional infant bathtub drowning deathsKimberly M Thompson
Harvard School of Public Health, Departments of Health Policy and Management and Maternal and Child Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MedGenMed 5:36. 2003..The objective of this study was to quantify and characterize the role of bath seats in infant mortality from bathtub drowning... - Variability and uncertainty meet risk management and risk communicationKimberly M Thompson
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Risk Anal 22:647-54. 2002.... - Risks of paralytic disease due to wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus after eradicationRadboud J Duintjer Tebbens
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Risk Anal 26:1471-505. 2006..This article attempts to comprehensively characterize the risks, synthesize the existing data available for modeling them, and present quantitative risk estimates that can provide a starting point for informing policy decisions... - The costs of future polio risk management policiesRadboud J Duintjer Tebbens
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Risk Anal 26:1507-31. 2006..OPV immunization... 
Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of a decision analytic model for posteradication polio risk managementRadboud J Duintjer Tebbens
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Risk Anal 28:855-76. 2008....- A dynamic model of poliomyelitis outbreaks: learning from the past to help inform the futureRadboud J Duintjer Tebbens
KidsRisk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:358-72. 2005..The authors expect that this model can provide important insights into the dynamics of future potential poliomyelitis outbreaks and in this way serve as a useful tool for risk assessment... - Parental survey of beliefs and practices about bathing and water safety and their children: guidance for drowning preventionLois K Lee
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Accid Anal Prev 39:58-62. 2007..Better water safety anticipatory guidance is needed for caregivers... - Poliomyelitis and the role of risk analysis in global infectious disease policy and managementKimberly M Thompson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, System Dynamics Group, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Risk Anal 26:1419-21. 2006 - Importance of black carbon in distribution and bioaccumulation models of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated marine sedimentsAmy E Vinturella
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 23:2578-86. 2004..Together, these results suggest that, in certain situations, adding black carbon to distribution models may be necessary to predict accurately the bioavailability of PAHs... - Violence, sex and profanity in films: correlation of movie ratings with contentKimberly M Thompson
Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MedGenMed 6:3. 2004..The MPAA rating reasons provide important information about content, but they do not identify all types of content found in films and they may particularly miss the depiction of substances... - Predicting severe head injury after light motor vehicle crashes: implications for automatic crash notification systemsDaniel Talmor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 1 Deaconess Rd, CC470, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Accid Anal Prev 38:767-71. 2006..As the development of automatic crash notification systems improves, models such as this one will be necessary to permit triage of what would be an overwhelming increase in crash notifications to pre-hospital responders... - Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of a dynamic economic evaluation model for vaccination programsRadboud J Duintjer Tebbens
Delft University of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Delft, The Netherlands
Med Decis Making 28:182-200. 2008.... - The probability of undetected wild poliovirus circulation after apparent global interruption of transmissionDominika A Kalkowska
Kid Risk, Inc, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Epidemiol 175:936-49. 2012.... - Demographic factors and their association with outcomes in pediatric submersion injuryLois K Lee
Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:308-13. 2006..To describe the epidemiology and outcomes of serious pediatric submersion injuries and to identify factors associated with an increased risk of death or chronic disability... - Content and ratings of teen-rated video gamesKevin Haninger
Center on Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
JAMA 291:856-65. 2004..Physicians and parents should be aware that popular T-rated video games may be a source of exposure to a wide range of unexpected content... - Violence in teen-rated video gamesKevin Haninger
Center on Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital Boston and Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MedGenMed 6:1. 2004.... - Pediatric traumatic brain injury and radiation risks: a clinical decision analysisKara E Hennelly
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pediatr 162:392-7. 2013.... - Emerging issues in vaccine economics: perspectives from the USATracy A Lieu
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 1:433-42. 2002..To optimize the usefulness of vaccine economics research, conceptual issues, such as how to set values for the prevention of illness and how to maximize social equity through investments in vaccines, must be addressed... - Use of passive samplers to mimic uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by benthic polychaetesAmy E Vinturella
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Sci Technol 38:1154-60. 2004..94, p < 0.0001)... - Body weight and water ingestion estimates for women in two communities in the Philippines: the importance of collecting site-specific dataAnne M Riederer
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Hyg Environ Health 209:69-80. 2006..We suggest that Philippine health authorities consider the possibility of including questions about water ingestion rates in future national health or nutrition surveys... - Value of information literature analysis: a review of applications in health risk managementFumie Yokota
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA
Med Decis Making 24:287-98. 2004..This article provides important insights for VOI applications in medical decision making... - Tiered chemical testing: a value of information approachFumie Yokota
Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC, USA
Risk Anal 24:1625-39. 2004..Finally, this article shows the large differences that exist in net benefits between the three criteria for the range of exposure levels where the optimal actions differ... - Policy decision options during the first 5 years following certification of polio eradicationNalinee Sangrujee
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Immunization Program, Global Immunization Division, Polio Eradication Branch, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
MedGenMed 5:35. 2003..While the management of polio risk in the postcertification period presents important challenges, this comprehensive approach helps simplify the process by focusing on critical decisions... - Eradicating polio: the dollars and senseKimberly M Thompson
MedGenMed 9:11. 2007 - Kids and media: learning happensKimberly M Thompson
MedGenMed 7:47. 2005 - Risk management in a polio-free worldR Bruce Aylward
Global Polio Eradication Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Risk Anal 26:1441-8. 2006.... - Global surveillance and the value of information: the case of the global polio laboratory networkEsther de Gourville
World Health Organization, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, Geneva, Switzerland
Risk Anal 26:1557-69. 2006..We also provided important insights about how the value of information may change after successful eradication of wild polioviruses... - Estimation of tuberculosis risk on a commercial airlinerGwangpyo Ko
Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77225, USA
Risk Anal 24:379-88. 2004..We further characterized spatial variability in the risk within the cabin by modeling a previously reported TB outbreak in an airplane to demonstrate that the TB cases occur most likely within close proximity of the source TB patient... - Reforms for rating media: disclosure, not censorshipKimberly M Thompson
MedGenMed 9:27. 2007 - Value of information analysis in environmental health risk management decisions: past, present, and futureFumie Yokota
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC, USA
Risk Anal 24:635-50. 2004..They further suggest the need for some efforts to standardize approaches and develop some prescriptive guidance for VOI analysts similar to existing guidelines for conducting cost-effectiveness analyses... - Quantifying the federal minimal risk standard: implications for pediatric research without a prospect of direct benefitDavid Wendler
Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
JAMA 294:826-32. 2005..These data also raise the question of whether the federal minimal risk standard may sometimes fail to provide sufficient protection for children, prompting the need to consider alternative standards... - Genetic testing for lung cancer risk: if physicians can do it, should they?Theodore W Marcy
Received from the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention, Office of Preventive Oncology, Rockville, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:946-51. 2002..Before recommending genetic testing to assess risk for disease, physicians need to consider whether knowledge about genetic susceptibility will alter patient management...