*Exploratory Medicinal Sciences; †Drug Safety, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, Connecticut, 06340; ‡Department of Pathology, Environmental Health and Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095; and §Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia 20...

1233. A Comparison of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) and Ventilator Associated Event (VAE) Definitions Kathleen Mcmullen, MPH, CIC; Rachael Snyders, MPH, BSN, RN; Pamala Kremer, BSN RN; Carol Sykora, MT (ASCP) CIC; Martha Craighead, RN, MBA, CIC; Loie Ruhl, RN; David K. Warren, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Marin H. Kollef, MD; Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MP...

a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USA b U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, 14th and Independence S.W., Washington, DC 20250, USA c Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, School of Agricultural Science, University...

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household survey, we employ a tripl...

1 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 2 Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom, 3 Immunobiology Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Ma...

1 Key laboratory of carbohydrate, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China 214122 2 State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Synergetic Innovation Center of Food Safety and Nutrition, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 7214122, China 3 Department of Food Science /Agricultural Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Que...

Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical...

Expert Judgements in Risk Analysis: a Strategy to Overcome Uncertainties David N. Pluess, Amela Groso, Thierry Meyer* a Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Group of Chemical and Physical Safety, Station 6, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Occupational Safety and Health, School of Basic Sciences, Station ...

BACKGROUND Multiple approaches exist, both in theory and in practice, to reduce young people's risk of violent victimization when they are in school. Among these approaches, a growing number of school districts are choosing to install metal detectors. We sought to review the literature available on the impacts of metal detectors on school violence and perceptions about school violence. METHOD...

Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, 71 Frankland Road, Hopkinton, MA 01748 USA French National Research and Safety Institute (INRS), 54501 Vandoeuvre, Cedex, France Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK Grado Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 240...