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View article: Overview and Methodology of the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey — United States, January–June 2021
Overview and Methodology of the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey — United States, January–June 2021 Open
Many U.S. schools closed nationwide in March 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. School closures and online-only instruction have negatively affected certain students, with studies showing adverse effects of the pandemic on mental heal…
View article: Overview and Methods for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System — United States, 2019
Overview and Methods for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System — United States, 2019 Open
Health risk behaviors practiced during adolescence often persist into adulthood and contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Youth health behavior data at the national, state, territorial, tribal, a…
View article: Transportation Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019
Transportation Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019 Open
Motor-vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death and nonfatal injury among U.S. adolescents, resulting in approximately 2,500 deaths and 300,000 nonfatal injuries each year. Risk for motor-vehicle crashes and resulting injuries and death…
View article: Long-Term Clinical Outcomes and Parental Satisfaction After Dextranomer/Hyaluronic Acid (Dx/HA) Injection for Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux
Long-Term Clinical Outcomes and Parental Satisfaction After Dextranomer/Hyaluronic Acid (Dx/HA) Injection for Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux Open
Purpose: Endoscopic dextranomer/hyaluronic acid (Dx/HA) injection is a common treatment for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) with excellent reported short-term clinical success rates. Long-term outcomes are less well-defined. We assessed long-t…
View article: Small separation diffuse correlation spectroscopy for measurement of cerebral blood flow in rodents
Small separation diffuse correlation spectroscopy for measurement of cerebral blood flow in rodents Open
Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) has shown promise as a means to non-invasively measure cerebral blood flow in small animal models. Here, we characterize the validity of DCS at small source-detector reflectance separations needed for…
View article: The Impact of Disruption of the Care Delivery System by Commercial Laboratory Testing in a Children's Health Care System
The Impact of Disruption of the Care Delivery System by Commercial Laboratory Testing in a Children's Health Care System Open
Context.— Disruption of outpatient laboratory services by routing the samples to commercial reference laboratories may seem like a cost-saving measure by the payers, but results in hidden costs in quality and resources to support this para…
View article: Prevalence of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — United States, 2012–2013
Prevalence of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — United States, 2012–2013 Open
Data collected by the National ALS Registry are being used to better describe the epidemiology of ALS in the United States and to help facilitate research. The combined approach of using national administrative databases and a self-enrollm…
View article: Preliminary Results of National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Registry Risk Factor Survey Data
Preliminary Results of National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Registry Risk Factor Survey Data Open
The National ALS Registry web portal, to our knowledge, is the largest, most geographically diverse collection of risk factor data about adults living with ALS. Various characteristics were consistent with other published studies on ALS ri…