JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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To improve understanding of the patterns of injury morbidity and mortality in an urban African-American population. ⋯ Interpersonal intentional injury occurs frequently in this population. More attention needs to be paid to prevention and intervention to reduce the toll of this violence. The high prevalence of injury in certain age strata may make general, population-based efforts for injury prevention more efficient than efforts targeted to subgroups.
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Meta Analysis
Efficacy of BCG vaccine in the prevention of tuberculosis. Meta-analysis of the published literature.
To quantify the efficacy of BCG vaccine against tuberculosis (TB). ⋯ On average, BCG vaccine significantly reduces the risk of TB by 50%. Protection is observed across many populations, study designs, and forms of TB. Age at vaccination did not enhance predictiveness of BCG efficacy. Protection against tuberculous death, meningitis, and disseminated disease is higher than for total TB cases, although this result may reflect reduced error in disease classification rather than greater BCG efficacy.