Melissa J Krauss

..To comprehensively analyze potential risk factors for falling in the hospital and describe the circumstances surrounding falls...

..To evaluate an intervention to prevent falls at a hospital...

..Preventing hospital falls and injuries requires knowledge of fall and injury circumstances. Our objectives were to determine whether reported fall circumstances differ among hospitals and to identify predictors of fall-related injury...

..Severity of substance use is more closely related to, and thus a better indicator of, higher number of sexual partners than age of substance use onset...

..More detailed studies should be conducted by floor or service to identify predictors of serious fall-related injury so that targeted interventions can be developed to reduce them...

..Understanding how trainees disclose errors and how their practices evolve during training could help educators design programmes to address this gap. This study was conducted to determine how trainees would disclose medical errors...

..The present study examined the associations between initiation and intensity of substance use and with sexual experience with and without a history of teenage pregnancy...

..In the multivariable analysis, marijuana use by age 14 years and/or cigarette smoking by age 12 years clearly distinguished girls who became pregnant by age 15 years and is perhaps due to a common underlying risk factor...

..To increase patient safety event reporting in three intensive care units (ICUs) using a new voluntary card-based event reporting system and to compare and evaluate observed differences in reporting among healthcare workers across ICUs...

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..CONCLUSIONS: Falls in the hospital affect young as well as older patients, are often unassisted, and involve elimination-related activities. Further studies are necessary to prevent hospital falls and reduce fall injury rates...

..This study examined the associations between health risk behaviors (i.e., substance use behaviors, physical violence, or carried a weapon) and multiple adolescent pregnancies (i.e., experiencing or causing more than one pregnancy)...

..This study was conducted to examine associations with contraception methods used at last sexual intercourse among US adolescents...

..This study examined the associations between social, behavioral, and environmental factors and adolescent parenthood...

..Nurses were more likely to use reporting systems than were physicians. Physician reports were more likely to be of events that caused harm...

..To examine the impact of sexuality education practices on adolescent birthrates while controlling for demographic characteristics and religious/political factors at a state level...

..aureus infection. However, MRSA-colonized patients may have more comorbidities than methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA)-colonized or noncolonized patients and therefore may be more susceptible to infection on that basis...

..To measure trainees' attitudes and experiences regarding medical error and error disclosure...

..Pregnancy prevention efforts can be improved by acknowledging the structural and cultural factors that shape teenage pregnancy attitudes...

..Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia results in substantial mortality. Infectious diseases specialist consultation can improve adherence to evidence-based management of S. aureus bacteremia, but its effect on mortality is unclear...

..Identification of persistent methicillin-resistant S. aureus carriers might inform strategies for decolonization and reduction of staphylococcal transmission...

..The objective was to evaluate a new mechanism for reporting and classifying patient safety events to increase reporting and identify patient safety priorities...

..To determine if migraineurs have evidence of interictal cutaneous sensitisation...

..The objective of this study was to determine if these abnormalities persist, resolve, or worsen during preadolescence...

..This study examined gender and racial/ethnic differences in sexual debut...

..We examined whether myocardial nutrient metabolism and left ventricular dysfunction are related to one another and worse in HIV infected men treated with cART vs. HIV-negative men with or without MC...

..To characterize pediatricians' attitudes and experiences regarding communicating about errors with the hospital and patients' families...

..aureus isolates recovered from outpatients, but eradication efforts were less successful in patients carrying a mupirocin-resistant S. aureus strain at baseline...

..To determine whether and how pediatricians would disclose serious medical errors to parents...

..These findings may be useful in aiding clinicians, patients, and policymakers in reducing the risk of microcephaly, a source of high perinatal mortality and morbidity rates...