Michael R. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Sanitation and public health: a heritage to remember and continue.
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Sanitation and public health: a heritage to remember and continue.
Am J Public Health. 2012 Feb;102(2):204-6
Authors: Greenberg MR
PMID: 22390432 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Categories: Publications from UCDPER Members
Reporting Guidelines and the American Journal of Public Health's Adoption of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
Thu, 05/03/2012 - 02:00
Reporting Guidelines and the American Journal of Public Health's Adoption of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
Am J Public Health. 2012 Mar 15;
Authors: McLeroy KR, Northridge ME, Balcazar H, Greenberg MR, Landers SJ
Abstract
Widespread recognition of the need to improve the science of published research, as well as the moral and ethical reasons for adequately reporting study results, has spurred recent interest in strengthening journal research reporting through the use of reporting guidelines. Reporting guidelines also provide information for readers to judge study quality. American Journal of Public Health previously adopted the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and Transparent Reporting of Evaluations With Nonrandomized Designs guidelines and recently endorsed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. In adopting these guidelines, the journal aims to support authors, reviewers, and editors in reporting and evaluating systematic reviews of public health policy and practice priorities. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print March 15, 2012: e1-e5. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300630).
PMID: 22420806 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Categories: Publications from UCDPER Members
The Affect Heuristic, Correspondence Analysis, and Understanding LULUs.
Thu, 05/03/2012 - 02:00
The Affect Heuristic, Correspondence Analysis, and Understanding LULUs.
Risk Anal. 2012 Mar;32(3):478-80
Authors: Greenberg MR
PMID: 22409337 [PubMed - in process]
Categories: Publications from UCDPER Members
Risk-based decision support tools: protecting rail-centered transit corridors from cascading effects.
Tue, 03/06/2012 - 15:00
Risk-based decision support tools: protecting rail-centered transit corridors from cascading effects.
Risk Anal. 2011 Dec;31(12):1849-58
Authors: Greenberg MR, Lowrie K, Mayer H, Altiok T
Abstract
We consider the value of decision support tools for passenger rail system managers. First, we call for models that follow events along main rail lines and then into the surrounding environment where they can cascade onto connected light rail, bus, auto, truck, and other transport modes. Second, we suggest that both probabilistic risk assessment (PRA-based) and agent-based models have a role to play at different scales of analysis and for different kinds of risks. Third, we argue that economic impact tools need more systematic evaluation. Fourth, we note that developers of decision support tools face a challenge of balancing their desire for theoretical elegance and the tendency to focus only on high consequence events against decisionmakers' mistrust of complex tools that they and their staff cannot manage and incorporate into their routine operations, as well as the high costs of developing, updating, and applying decision support tools to transport systems undergoing budget cuts and worker and service reductions.
PMID: 21564145 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Categories: Publications from UCDPER Members
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome as a cause for infant hypotension.
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 03:00
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome as a cause for infant hypotension.
West J Emerg Med. 2011 Nov;12(4):512-4
Authors: Coates RW, Weaver KR, Lloyd R, Ceccacci N, Greenberg MR
Abstract
Infants with food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) may present to the emergency department (ED) with vomiting and hypotension. A previously healthy, 5-month-old male presented with vomiting and hypotension 2 to 3 hours after eating squash. The patient was resuscitated with intravenous fluids, antibiotics, and admitted for presumed sepsis. No source of infection was ever found and the patient was discharged. The patient returned 8 days later with the same symptoms after eating sweet potatoes; the diagnosis of FPIES was made during this admission. Two additional ED visits occurred requiring hydration after new food exposure. FPIES should be considered in infants presenting with gastrointestinal complaints and hypotension. A dietary history, including if a new food has been introduced in the last few hours, may help facilitate earlier recognition of the syndrome.
PMID: 22224148 [PubMed - in process]
Categories: Publications from UCDPER Members
