Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 701-710.e4, June 2009

Dropping the Baton: A Qualitative Analysis of Failures During the Transition From Emergency Department to Inpatient Care

Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, June 2008, Washington, DC.

  • Leora I. Horwitz, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
    • The Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Leora Horwitz, MD, MHS, Yale–New Haven Hospital, 789 Howard Ave, New Haven, CT 06510; 203-688-5678, fax 203-688-5571
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  • Thom Meredith, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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  • Jeremiah D. Schuur, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • The Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Nidhi R. Shah, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Hospitalist Service, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
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  • Raghavendra G. Kulkarni, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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  • Grace Y. Jenq, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Received 27 December 2007; received in revised form 3 April 2008 and 29 April 2008; accepted 5 May 2008. published online 16 June 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: LIH, JDS, NRS, RGK, and GYJ conceived the study and designed the survey. NRS, RGK, and GYJ supervised data collection. LIH was responsible for data management, including quality control. LIH, TM, and GYJ coded the data, and JDS, NRS, and RGK participated in the qualitative analysis. LIH drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. LIH 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. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Dr. Horwitz was a VA Special Fellow and was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs during part of the time this study was conducted. Dr. Horwitz is now supported by Yale–New Haven Hospital. Neither the Department of Veterans Affairs nor Yale–New Haven Hospital had any role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, and approval of the article.

 Earn CME Credit: Continuing Medical Education is available for this article at: www.ACEP-EMedHome.com.

 Publication date: Available online June 16, 2008.

PII: S0196-0644(08)00795-6

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.05.007

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