Allison Curry and a team of researchers at CHOP and Penn aimed to link hospital discharge data with police crash reports to more accurately account for crash injuries. They found that each data source in isolation misses approximately one-third of injured individuals...
Sara Jacoby calls researchers, policymakers, advocates, and health systems to action in an invited commentary on the burden of assault injuries. After a recent contribution by Barry et al, Jacoby says now is the time to shift attention to the implementation and...
A team of PISC Scholars assessed rates of firearm mortality at the county level across the United States over two five year periods. The study, led by Michelle Degli Esposti and the team of Doug Wiebe, Jason Gravel, Elinore Kaufman, Kit Delgado, and Terry Richmond,...
Bernadette D’Alonzo led a study with Abby Bretzin and Doug Wiebe to examine the relationship between affective symptom reporting and return-to-play (RTP) progression after SRC among a cohort of Division 1 student-athletes. They found that student-athletes with...
This cross sectional investigation, by PISC Trainee Abby Bretzin and colleagues, measured the agreement between parent report of their 8–14 year old child’s sport-related concussion (SRC) history and their child’s self-report of their own SRC history. Read the full...
Former PISC Trainee Alison Culyba and colleagues found that exposure to violence was associated with absenteeism in middle school students. Resources and contextual support for youth exposed to family or community violence may play a role in school attendance,...
Former Center Director Douglas Wiebe and Trainees Abigail Bretzin and Bernadette D’Alonzo, along with the Ivy League–Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study Investigators, examined the progression of collegiate student athletes through five stages of a...
The opioid crisis has hit Philadelphia particularly hard, with over 46 overdose deaths per 100,000 residents in 2017, twice the national average. In response, the City of Philadelphia developed an overarching prevention strategy, the Resilience Project, which includes...
Abby Bretzin led a paper examining sex differences in high school soccer concussions. Despite females having greater concussion rates relative to males, males had (1.54) greater odds of immediate removal from play. If an athletic trainer (AT) was the initial examiner,...
Abby Bretzin led a paper that found longer time to authorized clearance from specialized care (team physician, neurologist) and shorter time to clearance from urgent care (hospital, urgent care facility). Associations were also observed between sex and who was...