Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 3 , Pages 310-320, March 2009

One-Year Medical Outcomes and Emergency Department Recidivism After Emergency Department Observation for Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain

  • Rebecca Cunningham, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • Department of Emergency Medicine Injury Research Center, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI
    • Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Rebecca Cunningham, MD, University of Michigan, Injury Research Center, 300 North Ingalls Street, Room 2C40, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5437; 734-615-3704, fax 734-936-2706
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  • Maureen A. Walton, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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  • Jim Edward Weber, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI
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  • Samantha O'Broin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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  • Shanti P. Tripathi, MS

      Affiliations

    • College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Health Services Research, Little Rock, AR
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  • Ronald F. Maio, DO, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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  • Brenda M. Booth, PhD

      Affiliations

    • College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Health Services Research, Little Rock, AR
    • Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR

Received 28 March 2008; received in revised form 4 June 2008 and 3 July 2008; accepted 15 July 2008. published online 29 September 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Judd E. Hollander, MD

 Author contributions: All coauthors contributed in conducting this research, writing the article, and approving this final version of the article. RC, MAW, JEW, and RFM were coinvestigators on the grant that funded this work. RC, SO, and MAW developed this article. JEW, SPT, RFM, and BMB reviewed/edited this article. BMB, MAW, RC, JEW and RFM participated in the study design and development of the recruitment protocol. JEW facilitated the research project in the ED. SO contributed to the data abstraction of medical charts. BMB was principal investigator on the grant that funded this work and provided overall supervision for the research presented in this article. RC 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. Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, RO1 grant DA14343.

 Publication dates: Available online September 28, 2008.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(08)01506-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.018

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 3 , Pages 310-320, March 2009

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