John MacDonald outlines seven key facts about crime and criminal offenders in Vital City to explain why politically popular criminal justice reforms tend to fail.
A study from Kit Delgado and colleagues demonstrates that combined individual audit and peer comparison feedback can increase the frequency of low-pill opioid prescriptions in the emergency department. However, the intervention does not affect prescribing disparities...
A recent paper led by Dan Corwin, with Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and other CHOP colleagues, suggests there is wide variability in the proportion of youth considered to be “recovered” following concussion, depending on the definition of...
Sense4Safety, the technology used in one of the Center’s core research projects, received a flurry of media attention following a presentation by George Demiris at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Demiris leads the...
Maggie Lowenstein was featured in two recent articles related to improved access to opioid care. The LDI blog post discusses reducing barriers to care and the WHYY article reviews the potential of over-the-counter naloxone, an overdose reversal medication.
A team led by Kristy Arbogast investigated the relationship between the menstrual cycle in the context of a concussion incident. The study found that some patients experienced a change in menstrual cycle pattern and that menstrual phase at the time of injury was...
Millan AbiNader and colleagues examine national datasets that enable researchers to evaluate incidence, trends, disparities, and policies related to fatalities associated with intimate partner violence (IPV), to more effectively intervene.
Dan Corwin led a paper, along with Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and colleagues, to determine the combination of elements from four commonly-used clinical concussion batteries that maximize the accuracy of adolescent concussion diagnosis.
Sara Jacoby and colleagues examined the perspectives of people injured by firearms with regards to the news media’s coverage of firearm violence. The study found that survivors of firearm injury perceived harms including dehumanization, reliving trauma, and...
Terry Richmond and Marta Bruce were featured in an LDI Q&A regarding “The Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Psychological Symptom Severity in a Cohort of Injured Black Men,” a paper they recently published in the Journal of Racial and...
