BACKGROUND The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) provides estimates of nonfatal, medically attended injuries and poisonings occurring in the United States. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this report are to 1) document changes in the injury and poisoning section of NHIS from 1997 through 2007; 2) provide guidance on summarizing data across the 11-year study period; and 3) present detailed ...

BACKGROUND Positions, signs, symptoms, and medical management of National Football League players with concussions involving 7 or more days out (7+) from play were compared for two 6-year study periods (2002-2007 vs 1996-2001). HYPOTHESIS More players were held out 7+ days in the 2002-2007 period without significant difference in concussion signs and symptoms. STUDY DESIGN Cohort. METHODS...

In recent years, the capital market has generated huge amounts of goodwill assets as a result blind mergers and acquisitions (M&A), "thunderbolts" have become commonplace, with significant impact on company operations performance. To examine whether companies used surplus management to improve impairment performance in context period-end profit losses declines, this study selected sample no...

Results Seven hundred eighty-six hospitalizations attributable to KD were identified between 2001 and 2007, representing 0.03% of hospitalizations in children younger than 18 years. Median age of diagnosis was 1 year (range 0-17). Twenty-five percent of patients were younger than 1 year, 60% were between 1 and 4 years, 11% between 5 and 9 years, and 4% between 10 and 17 years. Male to female ra...

An ongoing, annual survey of publications in systems and software engineering identifies the top 15 scholars and institutions in the field over a 5-year period. Each ranking is based on the weighted scores of the number of papers published in TSE, TOSEM, JSS, SPE, EMSE, IST, and Software of the corresponding period. This report summarizes the results for 2003–2007 and 2004–2008. The top-ranked ...

An ongoing, annual survey of publications in systems and software engineering identifies the top 15 scholars and institutions in the field over a 5-year period. Each ranking is based on the weighted scores of the number of papers published in TSE, TOSEM, JSS, SPE, EMSE, IST, and Software of the corresponding period. This report summarizes the results for 2003–2007 and 2004–2008. The top-ranked ...

Aims: To estimate the population density of Pecari tajacu, determine distribution pattern this in sampling sites, habitat preference and evaluate sustainability harvest three-year period.
 Study Design: Population study collared peccaries wild, descriptive, vertical municipality Tzucacab, Yucatan, Mexico, during years 2003-2004, 2007-2008 2008-2009.
 Methodology: Seven linear transect...

OBJECTIVE To describe patterns of statin use and predictors of poor maintenance over a 3-year period following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS National hospitalisation, mortality and pharmaceutical dispensing data were linked for all subjects aged 35-84 years discharged from a public hospital with an ACS in New Zealand in 2007. A Medication Possession Ratio (MPR; percentage of follo...