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Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 493-502.e4 , June 2010

Do Emergency Physicians Attribute Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits to Medication-Related Problems?

Corinne M. Hohl, MD, MHSc
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Address for correspondence: Corinne M. Hohl, MD, MHSc, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9 Canada; 604-875-4205, Fax 604-875-5506
Peter J. Zed, PharmD
- Department of Pharmacy, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Capital Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Department of Emergency Medicine and College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, MSc
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Peter S. Loewen, PharmD
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Pharmacy Services, Vancouver Coastal Health-Providence Health Care, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Roy A. Purssell, MD
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Received 16 February 2009 ,Revised 25 September 2009 ,Accepted 15 October 2009.

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Supervising editor: Lewis S. Nelson, MD

Author contributions: All authors conceived and designed the study, and all authors obtained funding. CMH and PJZ supervised the conduct of the study, data collection, and data management. CMH provided statistical expertise and analyzed the data. CMH drafted the article, and all authors contributed to its editing. All authors take 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. This work was supported by a grant from the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute In It for Life fund. Dr. Hohl was supported by a Mentored Clinician Scientist award from the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Abu-Laban was supported by a Clinical Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

Publication date: Available online December 11, 2009.

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Please see page 494 for the Editor's Capsule Summary of this article.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01648-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.10.008

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