Alcohol safety action projects; first year evaluation preview.

Mode of access: Internet.

Collision avoidance and accident survivability. Volume 1: collision threat. Final report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

Effectiveness of safety belt usage laws. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Idaho Alcohol Safety Action Project. Volume I: final report summary.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Effects of recent vehicle design changes on safety performance. Volume II: interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Transportation safety: opportunities for enhancing safety across modes. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives.

Mode of access: Internet.

An analysis of project impact on ultimate performance measures. Analytic study no. 1.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

An analysis of ultimate performance measures to determine total impact of the Fairfax Alcohol Safety Action Project, 1976. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

San Antonio Alcohol Safety Action Project - analytic study no. 3: analysis of selective enforcements. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Philosophical, medical, and experimental essays ... /

Contiene: I. On the state of the population in Manchester, and other adjacent places -- II. On the proportional mortality of the small pox and measles, in the several periods of life, and different seasons of the year; together with its comparative fatality to males and females -- III. On the different quantities of rain which fall, at different heights, over the same spot of ground -- IV. On the solution of stones of the urinary and of the gall bladder, by water impregnated with fixed air -- V. On the nature and composition of urinary calculi -- VI. On the internal regulation of hospitals -- VII. On the influence of fixed air on the colours and vegetation of plants -- VIII. On the action of different manures -- IX. On the properties of different absorbents -- X. Miscellaneous observations, cases, and inquiries.

Effect of the 55 mph speed limit law on fatal crashes in Texas.

Mode of access: Internet.

Interim report and recommendations /

"January 1994."

Is the increase in coronary events on Mondays an artifact?

Background: The aim of this article was to investigate the size and possible causes of the reported excess in coronary events on Mondays. Methods: We conducted a metaanalysis of data from the World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project, which monitored trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease. The MONICA Project was undertaken in 21 countries from 1980 to 1995. Results: We found a small overall excess rate of coronary events on Mondays. In a population experiencing 100 events per week, we estimate there would be approximately I more event on Monday than on any other day. Hierarchical logistic regression showed that the Monday excess was greater in centers with less thorough data collection procedures. Conclusions: The excess of coronary events on Mondays is probably an artifact resulting from events with uncertain dates being coded as taking place on Mondays.

Cost of an emerging epidemic: an economic analysis of atrial fibrillation in the UK

Objective: To evaluate the cost of atrial fibrillation (AF) to health and social services in the UK in 1995 and, based on epidemiological trends, to project this estimate to 2000. Design, setting, and main outcome measures: Contemporary estimates of health care activity related to AF were applied to the whole population of the UK on an age and sex specific basis for the year 1995. The activities considered ( and costs calculated) were hospital admissions, outpatient consultations, general practice consultations, and drug treatment ( including the cost of monitoring anticoagulant treatment). By adjusting for the progressive aging of the British population and related increases in hospital admissions, the cost of AF was also projected to the year 2000. Results: There were 534 000 people with AF in the UK during 1995. The direct'' cost of health care for these patients was pound 244 million (similar toE350 million) or 0.62% of total National Health Service ( NHS) expenditure. Hospitalisations and drug prescriptions accounted for 50% and 20% of this expenditure, respectively. Long term nursing home care after hospital admission cost an additional pound46.4 million (similar toE66 million). The direct cost of AF rose to pound459 million (similar toE655 million) in 2000, equivalent to 0.97% of total NHS expenditure based on 1995 figures. Nursing home costs rose to pound111 million (similar toE160 million). Conclusions: AF is an extremely costly public health problem.