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Identifying participants for inclusion in hospital-based violence intervention: An analysis of 18 years of urban firearm recidivism.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

July 2020

From the Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (S.B., A.T., N.E.G., A.K., D.L.); Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Z.C.), Newark; Department of Epidemiology (B.H.), Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway; Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (M.O.); Department of Psychology (P.B.), Department of Social Work (E.S-P.), Rutgers-Newark School of Arts and Sciences, Newark; Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy (M.G.), Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway; and The New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research at Rutgers (S.B., B.H., M.O., P.B., E.S-P., M.G.), Newark, New Jersey.

Background: Identifying individuals at highest risk maximizes efficacy of prevention programs in decreasing recidivist gunshot wound (GSW) injury. Characteristics of GSW recidivists may identify this population. Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) are one effective strategy; however, programs are expensive, therefore, when possible, epidemiologic data should guide inclusion criteria.

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Objective: Women are less likely than men to be arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or another drug, yet their proportion of DUI offenders is growing. Understanding how DUI recidivism risk varies for men and women is of practical utility for DUI assessment and intervention programs. The goals of the current study are to determine if there are different sets of predictors for men and women and whether gender-specific DUI recidivism risk scales perform better than a single recidivism scale for both men and women.

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Two Consecutive Cases of Persistent Stapedial Artery Managed With a Carbon Dioxide Laser.

Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol

January 2018

3 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Objective: (1) Discuss the presentation and management of persistent stapedial artery (PSA) discovered incidentally during cholesteatoma surgery. (2) Review use of carbon dioxide (CO) laser for treatment of PSA in the setting of chronic ear disease.

Patients: Two consecutive patients with PSA and primary acquired cholesteatoma.

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A history of intragastric balloons.

Surg Obes Relat Dis

February 2016

Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Electronic address:

The history of intragastric balloons (IGBs) began in 1985 with the Garren-Edwards Bubble. It was approved by the U.S.

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Baseline characteristics associated with different BMI trajectories in weight loss trials: a case for better targeting of interventions.

Eur J Clin Nutr

February 2016

School of Medicine/Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Background/objectives: Dietary weight loss interventions have heterogeneous outcomes in long-term studies, with many participants regaining part or all of the lost weight. Growth mixture modelling is a novel analytic approach that can be used to identify different trajectories of weight change during a trial rather than focussing on the total amount of weight lost.

Subjects/methods: Data were pooled from two 12-month dietary weight loss studies where no significant difference was detected between the treatment and control arms, thus allowing analysis independent of treatment.

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