Awareness and use of the ottawa ankle and knee rules in 5 countries: Can publication alone be enough to change practice?☆☆☆

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Boston, MA, May 1999.

From the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa^*; the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa^‡; the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Loeb Health Research Institute^§; Division of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa^∥; the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa^¶; Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Research Institute,^# Ottawa, Canada; Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth,^** and Southampton General Hospital, Southampton,^‡‡ United Kingdom; Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Département de Santé Publique–Qualité et Gestion des Risques, Paris, France^§§; Hopital de Poissy, Poissy, France^∥∥; the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Aranzazu,^¶¶ and the Emergency Service, Hospital Gipuzkoa, CHD,^## San Sebastian, Spain

Received 30 November 1999; received in revised form 28 March 2000, 13 July 2000 and 22 September 2000; accepted 24 October 2000.

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