A5054612571- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Family Support in Illness
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Polyomavirus and related diseases
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Homelessness and Social Issues
Public Health – Seattle & King County
2023-2024
University of Washington
2009-2011
The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative risk an injurious fall requiring medical attention in veterans with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared without MS after controlling for sex, age, and healthcare use. sample included 195,417 treated at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities Northwest United States fiscal year 2008. We obtained information regarding diagnosis, falls (operationalized as International Classifi cation Diseases-9th Revision-Clinical Modification codes...
Importance Drug overdose (OD) is a public health challenge and an important cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Existing studies evaluating OD-related OHCA (OD-OHCA) either aggregate all drugs or focus on opioids. The epidemiology, presentation, outcomes drug-specific are largely unknown. Objective To evaluate the temporal pattern, clinical care, adult patients with overall according to profile. Design, Setting, Participants This cohort study adults in King County Washington was...
ABSTRACT Background The compensatory reserve index (CRI) is a noninvasive, continuous measure designed to detect intravascular volume loss. CRI derived from the pulse oximetry waveform and reflects proportion of physiologic remaining before clinical hemodynamic decompensation. Methods In this prospective, observational, prehospital cohort study, we measured in injured patients transported by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) single Level I trauma center. We determined whether rolling average...
Emergency Medical Services patients who survive overdose are at high risk for subsequent and death. Programs that seek to link survivors harm reduction treatment services increasingly common, though they vary in design measured effect. Public Health - Seattle & King County (PHSKC) used a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process assess improve phone-based model post-overdose outreach County, Washington.
Objectives: In the United States, firearm injuries disproportionately occur in low-income communities and among racial ethnic minority populations. Recognizing these patterns across social conditions is vital for effective public health interventions. Using timely localized data, we examined association between vulnerability King County, Washington. Methods: For this ecological, cross-sectional study, used reporting areas (HRAs) (n = 61), a subcounty geography of County. We obtained...