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Booster seats for children: closing the gap between science and public policy in the United StatesDennis R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 4:5-8. 2003- Seat belt use among 13-15 year olds in primary and secondary enforcement law statesDennis R Durbin
Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Accid Anal Prev 39:524-9. 2007..Given the lower rates of restraint use among teen drivers and their passengers, the effect of primary enforcement laws on the restraint use of young teen passengers is of particular interest... - Effects of seating position and appropriate restraint use on the risk of injury to children in motor vehicle crashesDennis R Durbin
TraumaLink, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 115:e305-9. 2005.... - Factors associated with front row seating of children in motor vehicle crashesDennis R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics and TraumaLink, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Epidemiology 15:345-9. 2004..However, front row seating among these children remains common. To develop future educational and other interventions to decrease front row seating of young children, it is important to examine factors associated with this behavior... - Optimal restraint reduces the risk of abdominal injury in children involved in motor vehicle crashesMichael L Nance
Department of Surgery, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Surg 239:127-31. 2004..While optimal restraint has been shown to reduce the risk of injuries overall, its effect on specific types of injuries, in particular abdominal injuries, has not been demonstrated... - Primary access to vehicles increases risky teen driving behaviors and crashes: national perspectiveJ Felipe Garcia-Espana
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 124:1069-75. 2009..The goal was to explore teen driver vehicle access and its association with risky driving behaviors and crashes... - Child passenger injury risk in motor vehicle crashes: a comparison of nighttime and daytime driving by teenage and adult driversIrene G Chen
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 19104, USA
J Safety Res 37:299-306. 2006..Further reseach on specific circumstances of teen nighttime crashes is needed to inform industry efforts to improve visibility or vehicle operation under poor lighting conditions... - Risk of injury to restrained children from passenger air bagsDennis R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 4:58-63. 2003..3; 95% CI, 2.1-13.4). Exposure to PABs increased the risk of both minor injuries, including facial and chest abrasions, and more serious injuries, particularly upper extremity fractures... - An evaluation of the effectiveness of forward facing child restraint systemsKristy B Arbogast
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Blvd, 3535 TraumaLink, 10th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Accid Anal Prev 36:585-9. 2004..These results provide those educating parents and caregivers population-based data on the importance of child restraint use... - Differential risk of injury in child occupants by passenger car classificationMichael J Kallan
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 47:329-41. 2003..Luxury and Sports vs. Small cars, despite similar average vehicle weights in both comparisons. Parents who are purchasing passenger cars should strongly consider the size of the vehicle and its crashworthiness... - Belt-positioning booster seats and reduction in risk of injury among children in vehicle crashesDennis R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA
JAMA 289:2835-40. 2003..Lack of booster seat effectiveness data may be a barrier to passage of stronger child restraint laws... - Incidence and clinical significance of abdominal wall bruising in restrained children involved in motor vehicle crashesNicolas Lutz
Department of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Pediatr Surg 39:972-5. 2004..It is imperative to pursue intraabdominal injury in children with a bruise of the abdominal wall after MVC... - Injury risk for children in rear impacts: role of the front seat occupantJessica Steps Jermakian
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Ann Adv Automot Med 52:109-16. 2008.... - Are child passengers bringing up the rear? Evidence for differential improvements in injury risk between drivers and their child passengersFlaura K Winston
Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 51:113-27. 2007..While drivers experienced significant benefits in safety with increasing model years, children restrained by safety belts alone derived less safety benefit from newer vehicles... - Injury risk to restrained children exposed to deployed first- and second-generation air bags in frontal crashesKristy B Arbogast
Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:342-6. 2005.... - Front versus rear seat injury risk for child passengers: evaluation of newer model year vehiclesKristy B Arbogast
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 10:297-301. 2009..Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the association between seating row (front vs. rear) and risk of injury to children in newer model year vehicles... - Recent trends in child restraint practices in the United StatesFlaura K Winston
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 113:e458-64. 2004..To assess the success of recent outreach activities to promote appropriate child restraint in motor vehicles by examining trends in restraint types used by children under age 9 in 3 large regions of the United States... - Suboptimal restraint affects the pattern of abdominal injuries in children involved in motor vehicle crashesNicolas Lutz
Department of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Pediatr Surg 38:919-23. 2003..This suggests that the mechanism of injury for hollow viscus may be directly related to the improper positioning of the restraint... - Associations between parenting styles and teen driving, safety-related behaviors and attitudesKenneth R Ginsburg
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 124:1040-51. 2009..The goal was to explore the association between parenting style and driving behaviors... - Safety belt laws and disparities in safety belt use among US high-school driversJ Felipe Garcia-Espana
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Department of Pediatrics, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Center for Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Public Health 102:1128-34. 2012..We compared reported safety belt use, for both drivers and passengers, among teenagers with learner's permits, provisional licenses, and unrestricted licenses in states with primary or secondary enforcement of safety belt laws... - Effect of vehicle incompatibility on child occupant injury riskMichael J Kallan
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 49:279-92. 2005..Though smaller in magnitude, this trend was also present in offside and rear crashes as well... - Delta V as a predictor of significant injury for children involved in frontal motor vehicle crashesMichael L Nance
Surgery, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Surg 243:121-5. 2006..The objective of this study was to examine the association between delta V and risk of injury to children involved in frontal motor vehicle crashes... - Injuries to children in forward facing child restraintsKristy B Arbogast
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 46:213-30. 2002..These results have implications for the current efforts to upgrade the current FMVSS 213 and better protect child passengers... - Effect of model year and vehicle type on rollover crashes and associated injuries to childrenMichael J Kallan
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 50:171-84. 2006..Even with this decline in SUV rollover risk, similarly aged passenger cars and minivans still exhibited a rollover risk approximately half that of their SUV counterparts... - Effect of vehicle type on the performance of second generation air bags for child occupantsKristy B Arbogast
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 47:85-99. 2003..However, in SUVs the data suggest no reduction in injury risk with the new designs. This field data provides crucial real-world experience to the automotive industry as they work towards the next generation of air bag designs... - Effectiveness of high back and backless belt-positioning booster seats in side impact crashesKristy B Arbogast
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 49:201-213. 2005..This differential performance of the two types of BPB provides direction for future research into the design and performance of these restraints... - Risk of injury to child passengers in sport utility vehiclesLauren Daly
Department of Pediatrics, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE 19899, USA
Pediatrics 117:9-14. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine the relative risk of injury to children involved in crashes in SUVs, compared with those in passenger cars... - Differential risk of injury to child occupants by SUV sizeMichael J Kallan
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 48:87-100. 2004..There is an increased risk in both Small and Midsize SUVs when compared to Large SUVs. Parents who are purchasing a SUV should strongly consider the size of the vehicle and its crashworthiness... - Acute healthcare utilization by children after motor vehicle crashesFlaura K Winston
the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Pennsylvania, Blockley Hall, Room 818, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Accid Anal Prev 36:507-11. 2004.... - Shifts in child restraint use according to child weight in the United States from 1999 to 2002Flaura K Winston
TraumaLink: The Interdisciplinary Pediatric Injury Control Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 47:313-28. 2003..Despite progress, substantial inappropriate restraint still remains and continued investment in outreach efforts is necessary. The risk of injury for heavier children in child restraints with harnesses should be monitored... - Children with special physical health care needs: restraint use and injury risk in motor vehicle crashesPatty Huang
Division of Child Development and Rehabilitation Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3550 Market St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
Matern Child Health J 15:949-54. 2011..When counseling families about vehicle safety, practitioners should consider the fit of a child with SPHCN in a restraint system... - Factors associated with clinically significant head injury in children involved in motor vehicle crashesMichael L Nance
Department of Surgery and the Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 11:600-5. 2010..The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency of, and risk factors for, clinically significant head injury (CSHI) in child occupants in MVCs... - Prevalence of teen driver errors leading to serious motor vehicle crashesAllison E Curry
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market Street, Suite 1150, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Accid Anal Prev 43:1285-90. 2011..Programs and policies should target the most common and modifiable reasons for crashes. We estimated the frequency of critical reasons for crashes involving teen drivers, and examined in more depth specific teen driver errors... - Children with special health care needs: patterns of safety restraint use, seating position, and risk of injury in motor vehicle crashesPatty Huang
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3550 Market St, 3rd Floor, Room 3041, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 123:518-23. 2009..The aim of this study was to describe and compare variation in restraint use, seating position, and injury risk in motor vehicle crashes among children with and without special health care needs likely to affect behavior... - Adult-supervised practice driving for adolescent learners: The current state and directions for interventionsLela Jacobsohn
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 19104, USA
J Safety Res 43:21-8. 2012..The aim of this study was to quantify and identify correlates to the amount of parent-supervised behind-the-wheel practice hours by novice teen drivers... - Variation in teen driver education by state requirements and sociodemographicsAllison E Curry
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 129:453-7. 2012.... - Breathing difficulty and tinnitus among children exposed to airbag deploymentManoj K Mittal
Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Accid Anal Prev 39:624-8. 2007.... - Effect of booster seat laws on appropriate restraint use by children 4 to 7 years old involved in crashesFlaura K Winston
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:270-5. 2007..To quantify the independent contribution of recently enacted booster seat laws on appropriate restraint use by child passengers in motor vehicles... - Rear-facing car safety seats: getting the message rightMarilyn J Bull
Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Pediatrics 121:619-20. 2008 - The role of restraint and seat position in pediatric facial fracturesKristy B Arbogast
TraumaLink and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Trauma 52:693-8. 2002..Recently, head and brain injuries were identified as consequences of the inappropriate use of seat belts by children. The proposed mechanism of these injuries might also place a child at risk for facial fracture... - Risk of injury to restrained children from passenger airbagsDennis R Durbin
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 46:15-25. 2002..These real-world data may be of use to vehicle manufacturers and restraint suppliers as they face design decisions with regard to child passengers... - Risk of injury to child passengers in compact extended-cab pickup trucksFlaura K Winston
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, 3535 TraumaLink, 10th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
JAMA 287:1147-52. 2002..An increasing number of compact pickup trucks can accommodate restrained rear occupants. Rear seats in these pickup trucks are exempt from regulatory safety testing though their relative safety has not been determined... - The influence of harness type on child restraint system misuseKristy B Arbogast
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 46:261-9. 2002..The data further suggest specific design improvements for each harness design based on the particular pattern of misuse... - Factors associated with driving in teens with autism spectrum disordersPatty Huang
Division of Child Development and Metabolism, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3550 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 33:70-4. 2012..Driving teens were more frequently in regular education settings with college aspirations, which could help schools identify potential drivers... - Characterization of interpersonal violence events involving young adolescent girls vs events involving young adolescent boysCynthia J Mollen
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:545-50. 2004..Multiple studies have demonstrated that girls are engaging in interpersonal violence. However, little is known about the potentially unique aspects of violent events involving girls... - Effectiveness of belt positioning booster seats: an updated assessmentKristy B Arbogast
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 124:1281-6. 2009..The objective of this study was to provide an updated estimate of the effectiveness of belt-positioning booster (BPB) seats compared with seat belts alone in reducing the risk for injury for children aged 4 to 8 years... - Seating patterns and corresponding risk of injury among 0- to 3-year-old children in child safety seatsMichael J Kallan
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 523 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 121:e1342-7. 2008..In addition, we determined the association between rear row seating location and risk of injury... - Evaluation of pediatric use patterns and performance of lap shoulder belt systems in the center rearKristy B Arbogast
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 48:57-72. 2004..The data suggest that by requiring lap shoulder belts in the center rear, benefits would be realized to belted children, specifically the 4-8 year old group... - Mechanisms of abdominal organ injury in seat belt-restrained childrenKristy B Arbogast
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Trauma 62:1473-80. 2007.... - Grandparents driving grandchildren: an evaluation of child passenger safety and injuriesFred M Henretig
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 128:289-95. 2011..To compare restraint-use practices and injuries among children in crashes with grandparent versus parent drivers... - Association between weight and risk of crash-related injuries for children in child restraintsMark R Zonfrillo
Department ofPediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 128:1148-52. 2011..To determine the association between weight and the risk of injury in motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) for children 1 through 8 years of age who were using child restraints... - Evaluation of a child with pre-existing disabilities after a traumatic eventShannon D Morris
TraumaLink, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 18:197-9. 2002 - Accuracy of self-reported data for estimating crash severityMichael R Elliott
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 612 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Accid Anal Prev 35:833-40. 2003..This "self-reported" delta-V measure, however, is a substantial improvement over use of estimated traveling speed or speed limit only... - A randomized, clinical trial of a home safety intervention based in an emergency department settingJill C Posner
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 113:1603-8. 2004..To assess the effectiveness of an emergency department (ED)-based home safety intervention on caregivers' behaviors and practices related to home safety... - Effect of high-fidelity simulation on Pediatric Advanced Life Support training in pediatric house staff: a randomized trialAaron J Donoghue
Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 25:139-44. 2009..To assess the effect of high-fidelity simulation (SIM) on cognitive performance after a training session involving several mock resuscitations designed to teach and reinforce Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) algorithms... - Perception of realism during mock resuscitations by pediatric housestaff: the impact of simulated physical featuresAaron J Donoghue
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Simul Healthc 5:16-20. 2010..We surveyed pediatric housestaff as to the realism of scenarios with and without simulated physical signs... - Trends in operative management of pediatric splenic injury in a regional trauma systemDaniela H Davis
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Pediatrics 115:89-94. 2005.... - Peer passengers: how do they affect teen crashes?Allison E Curry
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J Adolesc Health 50:588-94. 2012..We aimed to provide insight on the two primary hypothesized mechanisms, distraction and promotion of risk-taking behavior, for male and female teen drivers and further for select driver-passenger gender combinations... - Injuries to belted older children in motor vehicle crashesJ Felipe Garcia-Espana
Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Accid Anal Prev 40:2024-8. 2008..These recommendations assume that the vehicle seat belt should provide adequate protection for these older children in the event of a crash... - Prevalence of traumatic injuries in drowning and near drowning in children and adolescentsVivian Hwang
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:50-3. 2003..Use of specialized trauma evaluations may not be warranted for patients in drowning and near-drowning accidents without a clear history of traumatic mechanism... - The rural-urban continuum: variability in statewide serious firearm injuries in children and adolescentsMichael L Nance
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:781-5. 2002..To compare rates of serious firearm injuries among children and adolescents treated in a statewide trauma system... - Occult head injury in high-risk abused childrenDavid M Rubin
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania and Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 111:1382-6. 2003..The primary aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of occult head injury in a high-risk sample of abused children with normal neurologic examinations. The secondary aim was to describe characteristics of this population... - Emergency physicians' knowledge and provision of child passenger safety informationMark R Zonfrillo
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:145-51. 2011..This study assessed emergency physicians' knowledge and provision of child passenger safety (CPS) information to patients following motor vehicle crashes (MVCs)... - Family burden after traumatic brain injury in childrenMary E Aitken
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Arkansas Children s Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Pediatrics 123:199-206. 2009..This study describes the burden experienced by caregivers of children with traumatic brain injury and examines the relationship between child functioning and family burden during the first year after injury... - Effectiveness of child safety seats vs seat belts in reducing risk for death in children in passenger vehicle crashesMichael R Elliott
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:617-21. 2006.... - A latent class analysis of injury patterns among rear-seated, seat-belted childrenMichael R Elliott
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Trauma 61:1244-8. 2006..The objective of the study was to determine the constellation of injury patterns in rear-seated, seat-belt-restrained children using data-driven latent class methodology novel to injury prevention research... - Injury prevention: is the pediatric emergency department the appropriate place?Michael A Gittelman
Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 21:460-7. 2005 - Children's health status instruments: their potential application in the emergency departmentMelissa L McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:337-44. 2002..To provide an overview of child health status instruments and their potential application by emergency medicine researchers... - Health-related quality of life during the first year after traumatic brain injuryMelissa L McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:252-60. 2006..To document health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to examine the relationship between TBI severity and HRQOL during the first year after injury... - Health care utilization and needs after pediatric traumatic brain injuryBeth S Slomine
Department of Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 117:e663-74. 2006..The purpose of this study was to document the health care use and needs of children after a TBI and to identify factors that are associated with unmet or unrecognized health care needs during the first year after injury... - The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory: an evaluation of its reliability and validity for children with traumatic brain injuryMelissa L McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 86:1901-9. 2005..0 (PedsQL), and to compare it with that of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) among children with traumatic brain injury (TBI)...