Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 2 , Pages 139-143 , February 2002

A randomized, controlled trial of panic disorder treatment initiation in an emergency department chest pain center

Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2000.

  • Lawson Wulsin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
    • ,
  • Tiepu Liu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • PPD Development, Biostatistics, Wilmington, NC
    • ,
  • Alan Storrow, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
    • ,
  • Shelley Evans, MA, MEd

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
    • ,
  • Naakesh Dewan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
    • ,
  • Catherine Hamilton, RN, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

Received 3 October 2000 ,Revised 10 October 2001 ,Accepted 7 November 2001.

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☆ Author contributions are provided at the end of this article.

☆☆ Supported by a grant from Smith, Kline, Beecham (No. CPMS 619).

★ Address for reprints: Lawson Wulsin, MD, 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML 559, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0559;,513-558-5192; E-mail lawson.wulsin@uc.edu .

PII: S0196-0644(02)81266-5

doi: 10.1067/mem.2002.121484

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 2 , Pages 139-143 , February 2002

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