Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 3 , Pages 368-378, September 2009

Evaluation of an Asynchronous Physician Voicemail Sign-out for Emergency Department Admissions

  • Leora I. Horwitz, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
    • Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Leora Horwitz, MD, MHS, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208093, New Haven, CT 06520-8093; 203-688-5678, fax 203-737-3306
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  • Vivek Parwani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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  • Nidhi R. Shah, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Hospitalist Service, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
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  • Jeremiah D. Schuur, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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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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  • Grace Y. Jenq, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 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

Received 19 November 2008; received in revised form 16 January 2009; accepted 30 January 2009. published online 13 March 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: LIH, VP, NRS, JDS, TM, GYJ, and RGK conceived the intervention, designed the study, and selected the measures. LIH, VP, NRS, and GYJ supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. LIH managed the data, including quality control. LIH, VP, and RGK analyzed the qualitative data; LIH analyzed the quantitative data. LIH drafted the article, and all authors contributed 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 is supported by Yale-New Haven Hospital and by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). Neither Yale-New Haven Hospital nor the NCRR 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. This publication was made possible by the CTSA grant UL1 RR024139 and KL2 RR024138 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the NCRR or NIH.

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 Publication date: Available online March 12, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)00117-6

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.01.034

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