Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 811-813 , June 2009

Postreduction Management of First-Time Traumatic Anterior Shoulder Dislocations

  • Nathan James McNeil, MD, CAQ in Sports Medicine

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Nathan James McNeil, MD, CAQ in Sports Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1103, Los Angeles, CA 90048; 310-423-8780, Fax 323-571-0360

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 From the Editor—Emergency physicians must often make decisions about patient management without clear-cut data of sufficient quality to support clinical guidelines or evidence-based reviews. Topics in the Best Available Evidence section must be relevant to emergency physicians, are formally peer reviewed, and must have a sufficient literature base to draw a reasonable conclusion but not such a large literature base that a traditional “evidence-based” review, meta-analysis, or systematic review can be performed.

 Supervising editor: Judd E. Hollander, MD.

 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 author has stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Publication date: Available online January 23, 2009.

 Reprints not available from the author.

PII: S0196-0644(08)02120-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.12.021

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 811-813 , June 2009

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