Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

Background Hospitals have difficulty justifying the expense of maintaining trauma centers
without strong evidence of their effectiveness. To address this gap, we examined differences in …

Background It is unknown whether keeping a firearm in the home confers protection against
crime or, instead, increases the risk of violent crime in the home. To study risk factors for …

Aims. To examine the effectiveness of brief behavioral interventions adapting the principles
and techniques of Motivational Interviewing (MI) to four behavioral domains: substance …

Objective. —To determine if a commonly used violence prevention curriculum, Second Step:
A Violence Prevention Curriculum, leads to a reduction in aggressive behavior and an …

Using a population-based hospital discharge registry with E codes, we examine the 1989
hospitalizations of older adults in Washington State for fall-related injuries. Fall-related trauma …

Objective Alcoholism is the leading risk factor for injury. The authors hypothesized that
providing brief alcohol interventions as a routine component of trauma care would significantly …

Background. It has been suggested that limiting access to firearms could prevent many
suicides, but this belief is controversial. To assess the strength of the association between the …

Background Over the past decade, concerns about bullying and its role in school violence,
depression, and health concerns have grown. However, no large studies in the United States …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the relationship between women’s health and the timing, type, and
duration of intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure. METHODS: A telephone interview was …