Objective: To systematically review the medical literature in order to determine the strength
of the recommendation for screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol‐related …

A primary goal of the Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference,“The
Unraveling Safety Net: Research Opportunities and Priorities,” was to explore a formal …

Study objective: The emergency department is a problem-focused environment in which
routine screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) is difficult. We hypothesized that …

Mental health problems are among the leading contributors to the global burden of disease.
1 Unfortunately, pediatric populations are not spared of mental health problems. In the …

Objectives: Falls represent an increasingly frequent source of injury among older adults.
Identification of fall risk factors in geriatric patients may permit the effective utilization of …

Objective Over 15 million adolescents, many at high risk for pregnancy, use emergency
departments (EDs) in the United States annually, but little is known regarding reasons for …

OBJECTIVE: To characterize youth seeking care for assault injuries, the context of violence,
and previous emergency department (ED) service utilization to inform ED-based injury …

In emergency medicine, there is an ongoing debate regarding patients who use the
emergency department (ED) as their usual source of medical care—an arguably costly and …

BACKGROUND: Nonmedical factors may modify the biological risk of prostate cancer (PCa)
and contribute to the differential use of early detection; curative care; and, ultimately, greater …

Abstract Background. Urban emergency departments (EDs) seem to be able to detect new
hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections at a high rate, but it is unknown the extent to which …