Ride-on lawnmowers warnings: slope measurements and safety-by-separation.

Various single-rider open vehicles, such as lawnmowers, are susceptible to overturning on slopes that are too steep for them. Warnings have included separation from the vehicles and avoiding slopes that are too steep. A recommended maximum slope is commonly 15 degrees.

Ratings checklist for warnings: a prototype tool to aid experts in the adequacy evaluation of proposed or existing warnings.

In the field of forensic human factors, experts are often called upon to assess and evaluate the adequacy of new or existing products' warnings or warnings systems. The usual goal of this evaluation is to arrive at a simple binary decision regarding the warning in question (i.e.

An evaluation of recent federal spending on comparative effectiveness research: priorities, gaps, and next steps.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included new funding for developing better evidence about health interventions, with a down payment of $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research. Our analysis of funds allocated in the legislation found that nearly 90 percent of the $1.

Assessment of the quality of cost analysis literature in physical therapy.

Background: Policy makers, payers, and other stakeholders increasingly call for greater evidence of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to identify and rate the quality of cost analysis literature in physical therapy and to report summary information on the findings from the reviewed studies.

Design: This study was a targeted literature review and rating of relevant studies published in the last decade using a quality evaluation tool for economic studies.