Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 204-211 , September 2000

Asthma Education in the Emergency Department

  • Stephen D. Emond, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
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  • Caitlin R. Reed, MPhil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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  • Louis G. Graff IV, MD

      Affiliations

    • Boston, MA; and the Department of Emergency Medicine, New Britain General Hospital, New Britain, CT, and University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT.
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  • Sunday Clark, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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  • Carlos A. Camargo Jr., MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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  • On behalf of the MARC Investigators

Received 25 August 1999 ,Revised 5 April 2000 ,Accepted 28 April 2000.

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☆ Ms. Reed is supported by a Harvard Medical School Student Research Grant (Boston, MA). Dr. Camargo is supported by grant No. HL-03533 from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD). The Multicenter Airway Research Collaboration is supported by grant No. HL-63253 from the National Institutes of Health, and by unrestricted grants from Glaxo Wellcome Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC) and Monaghan Medical Corporation (Syracuse, NY).

☆☆ Address for reprints: Carlos Camargo, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Clinics Building 116, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; 617-726-5276, fax 617-724-4050; E-mail marc@mgh.harvard.edu .

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doi: 10.1067/mem.2000.109168

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 204-211 , September 2000

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