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| Eduard ZaloshnjaSummaryAffiliation: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation Country: USA Publications
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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...- Impact of youth injuries on the uninsured farm family's economic viabilityEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Center for Public Health Improvement and Innovation, Calverton, MD 20705 3111, USA
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 19:109-13. 2012..Prevention of child agricultural injuries would significantly improve the financial situation for farm families that lack health insurance... - Incidence and cost of injury among youth in agricultural settings, United States, 2001-2006Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11720 Beltsville Dr, Suite 900, Beltsville, MD 20705 3111
Pediatrics 129:728-34. 2012..Estimate the annual US incidence and cost of fatal and nonfatal youth injury in agricultural settings... - 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 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... - 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... - 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... - 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)... - 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... - 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... - How often do catastrophic injury victims become Medicaid recipients?Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation Beltsville, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Med Care 50:513-9. 2012..Medicaid then covers all of their medical care costs. No estimates for Medicaid conversions due to injury exist in the literature... - Cost of crashes related to road conditions, United States, 2006Eduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
Ann Adv Automot Med 53:141-53. 2009..Road conditions are largely controllable. Road maintenance and upgrading can prevent crashes and reduce injury severity... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - The impact of tobacco control policies in AlbaniaEduard Zaloshnja
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Suite 900, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Tob Control 19:463-8. 2010..To assess the impact of a tobacco control law adopted in Albania in 2007 and to estimate the share of illicit cigarettes on the market... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - The role of tobacco control policies in reducing smoking and deaths caused by smoking in an Eastern European nation: results from the Albania SimSmoke simulation modelDavid T Levy
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11720 Beltsville Dr, Suite 900, Calverton, Maryland, 20705, USA 20705
Cent Eur J Public Health 16:189-98. 2008..The effectiveness of future tobacco control policy will require proper surveillance and evaluation schemes for Albania... - 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... - 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... - Incidence of long-term disability following traumatic brain injury hospitalization, United States, 2003Anbesaw W Selassie
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
J Head Trauma Rehabil 23:123-31. 2008..The regression coefficients were applied to the 2003 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project-Nationwide Inpatient Sample data to estimate the incidence of long-term disability following traumatic brain injury hospitalization...