Overview: The Guide to Community Preventive Service’s methods for systematic reviews
were used to evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches to increasing physical activity: …

Individuals are increasingly involved in decisions about their health care. Shared decision
making (SDM), an intervention in the clinical setting in which patients and providers …

In early childhood home visitation programs, par-ents and children are visited at home
during the child’s first 2 years of life by trained personnel who provide some combination of …

Background The use of transcatheter aortic-valve replacement has been shown to reduce
mortality among high-risk patients with aortic stenosis who are not candidates for surgical …

Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today.
Through premature death, disability, medical cost and lost productivity, injuries impact the …

Objective: To estimate the incidence and direct medical costs for fatal and non-fatal fall injuries
among US adults aged ⩾65 years in 2000, for three treatment settings stratified by age, …

As public accountability has increased and resources have become scarcer, public health,
like clinical medicine, has been forced to re-examine the benefits and costs of its activities. …

… The criterion for a variable entry into the logistic model was a univariate probability level of
P<0.2. A value of P≤0.05 was considered statistically significant. The quality of the fit of the …

… P Corso1, … Haddix A, Teutsch S, Corso P. Prevention effectiveness: A guide to decision
analysis and economic evaluation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. …

… Contributors PS Corso originated the study and supervised all aspects of its implementation,
synthesized analyses, … A P value of less than .05 was considered significant in this analysis. …