Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 51, Issue 4 , Pages 361-366 , April 2008

What Are You Waiting For? A Study of Resident Physician-Parent Communication in a Pediatric Emergency Department

  • Kelly J. Cramm, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Orlando Regional Medical Center and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Kelly Cramm, MD, MPH, 9125 Tuscan Valley Place, Orlando, FL 32825; 321-231-6614
    • ,
  • Mary D. Dowd, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

Received 4 March 2007 ,Revised 21 July 2007 ,Accepted 28 September 2007.

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 Supervising editor: Kathy N. Shaw, MD, MSCE

 Author contributions: KJC and MDD conceived the study, designed the study, and analyzed the results. KJC performed the interviews and managed the data. KJC wrote the article. KJC and MDD contributed significantly to its revision. KJC takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Publication dates: Available online November 19, 2007.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)01627-7

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.09.032

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 51, Issue 4 , Pages 361-366 , April 2008

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