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Increased emergency department presentations for head trauma following media coverage of a fatal epidural hematoma
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Previous reports have demonstrated the media’s influence on ED visits in situations such as dramatized acetaminophen overdose, media report of celebrity suicides, television public announcements for early stroke care and cardiac visits following… read more… LH Gren et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 32 Acknowledgements This paper was … References 1 ThompsonWW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Cox N, Anderson LJ, et al. Mortality associated with … in the United States. JAMA 2003;289:179–86. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et … -
School absenteeism and emergency department ILI rates in King County, WA 2003–2009
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Absenteeism is regarded as an expedient and responsive marker of illness activity. It has been used as a health outcome measure for a wide spectrum of exposures and as an early indicator of influenza outbreaks.1 A handful of studies have described… read more… et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 74 of absenteeism for ILI are needed to … Health Threats Journal C Rodriguez et al. 2011, 4:s109 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 75 …