Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 620-625 , June 2005

Emergency Department Brief Motivational Interventions for Alcohol With Motor Vehicle Crash Patients

Received 10 June 2004 ,Revised 11 January 2005 ,Accepted 25 January 2005.

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 Author contributions: This analysis was conceived and designed by MJM, TDN, RL, RW, AM, and JB. It used data previously collected through research funding obtained by RL. AM and JB provided statistical advice. MJM and TDN drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revisions. MJM takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: Dr. Longabaugh is supported in part by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (R01 AA 09835). Dr. Mello is supported in part by a grant from the CDC (R49 CCR122458). The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIAAA or CDC.Presented as a poster at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2004, Orlando, FL, and the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00132-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.01.026

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 620-625 , June 2005

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