Estimating the effects of a studded footwear subsidy program on pedestrian falls among older adults in Gothenburg, Sweden

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the relationship between weather conditions, time of year, surgical orthopaedic trauma volumes, after-hours surgery, and surgical wait times, and suggest that interventions should aim to decrease weather-related orthopedic trauma and reduce the burden prolonged wait times have on our system.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative way to allow for extrapolation, although ensuring that the estimated counterfactuals remain nonnegative, is proposed. But this method is not suitable for count data.

TL;DR: This comprehensive review synthesized and analyzed existing research to bridge knowledge gaps and provide insights into optimal footwear choices for older adults in terms of design features such as fit, fixation, heel height, collar height, slip resistance, and sole/insole hardness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a process evaluation to identify potential barriers to the success of these programs and analyzed the logic of their design, finding that the main barrier appears to be a lack of scale (i.e., insufficient procurement and distribution of ice cleats), as 90% of all purchased ice cleat were eventually distributed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the applicability of synthetic control methods to comparative case studies and found that, following Proposition 99, tobacco consumption fell markedly in California relative to a comparable synthetic control region, and that by the year 2000 annual per-capita cigarette sales in California were about 26 packs lower than what they would have been in the absence of Proposition 99.

TL;DR: We use synthetic control methods to study the effects of Proposition 99, a large-scale tobacco control program in California.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the use of the synthetic control method (Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2003; Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller, 2010) as a way to bridge the quantitative/qualitative divide in comparative politics.

TL;DR: Attention is given to models obtained via subset selection procedures, which are extremely difficult to evaluate by standard techniques, and their use illustrated in examples.