Preventive care in the emergency department: screening for domestic violence in the emergency department

D Anglin, C Sachs - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The most effective methods for identification and management of domestic
violence (DV) victims in health care settings are unknown. The objective of this study was to …

Preventive care in the emergency department: diagnosis and management of smoking and smoking‐related illness in the emergency department: a systematic review

SL Bernstein, BM Becker - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United
States. The efficacy of emergency department (ED)‐based patient screening and counseling …

Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for HIV counseling, testing, and referral: critical role of and a call to action for emergency physicians

RE Rothman - Annals of emergency medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
Although the rate of new cases of HIV infection has been relatively stable during the past
decade, it remains unacceptably high, with 40,000 individuals newly infected each year. In …

An evaluation of a dog bite prevention intervention in the pediatric emergency department

CA Dixon, WJ Pomerantz, KW Hart… - Journal of Trauma …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a video-based dog bite
prevention intervention at increasing child knowledge and describe any associated factors …

A multicenter study of depression among emergency department patients

A Kumar, S Clark, ED Boudreaux… - Academic emergency …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The authors sought to determine the 12‐month prevalence of depression among
emergency department (ED) patients using a single‐question screen. Methods: This cross …

A systematic review of smoking cessation interventions in the emergency setting

JH Pelletier, TD Strout, MR Baumann - The American journal of emergency …, 2014 - Elsevier
Study objective Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the
United States, and tobacco use rates are known to be higher among emergency department …

Public Health in the Emergency Department: Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference Executive Summary

SL Bernstein, G D'Onofrio - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Fifty years ago, CP Snow wrote of the intellectual divide between the humanities and the
sciences in his essay, Two Cultures. 1 The book sparked an intellectual debate that …

Age–sex differences in medicinal self-poisonings: a population-based study of deliberate intent and medical severity

AE Rhodes, J Bethell, J Spence, PS Links… - Social psychiatry and …, 2008 - Springer
Background Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is related to suicide and DSH repetition is common.
DSH hospital presentations are often self-poisonings with medicinal agents. While older age …

Point‐of‐care glucose and hemoglobin A1c in emergency department patients without known diabetes: implications for opportunistic screening

AA Ginde, E Cagliero, DM Nathan… - Academic Emergency …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The objectives were to evaluate the correlation between random glucose and
hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in emergency department (ED) patients without known diabetes …

Competing values of emergency department performance: balancing multiple stakeholder perspectives

D Tregunno, G Ross Baker, J Barnsley… - Health services …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To describe the performance interests of multiple stakeholders associated with
the management and delivery of emergency department (ED) care, and to develop a …