There are large disparities in American Indian pediatric motor vehicle (MV) mortality with reports that several factors may contribute. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 2000-2014 was used to examine restraint use for occupants aged 0-19 years involved in fatal MV crashes on Indian lands (n = 1667) and non-Indian lands in adjacent states (n = 126,080). SAS GLIMMIX logistic regression w...

Links between extreme wet conditions over East Africa and Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures (SST) are investigated during the core of the so-called short rain season in October–November. During periods of enhanced East African rainfall, Indian Ocean SST anomalies reminiscent of a tropical Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) event are observed. Ensemble simulations with an atmospheric general circulat...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the principal provider of information about the evidence relating to effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in healthcare in the National Health Service of England and Wales. NICE regards quality as primarily to do with effectiveness, safety and the patient experience. In this paper we comment on the quality of evidence regarding...

"To assess the relative roles of race and ethnicity in shaping patterns of residential segregation, this article utilizes indices of segregation and a geographic mapping strategy to examine the residential patterns of West Indian blacks in the greater New York City area. The socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods occupied by West Indian blacks are also examined and compared to those of ...

Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service, Health Service Executive, North County Dublin, Ireland Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland Trinity Centre, St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland NR Consulting, 3 Lumiera, Kilmacanogue, Co., Wicklow, Ireland Irish Society for Clinical ...

S Kirby, M Moore, T McGarron, P Johnstone, D Perkins, D Lyle Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Broken Hill Base, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Broken Hill Airport, New South Wales, Australia Tibooburra Health Service, Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, Bloomfield Campu...

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, ON, Canada; National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Oxford University ...