Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 57, Issue 4 , Pages 315-322.e1, April 2011

“Sign Right Here and You're Good to Go”: A Content Analysis of Audiotaped Emergency Department Discharge Instructions

  • Anita Vashi, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Karin V. Rhodes, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Karin V. Rhodes, MD, MS, Division of Health Care Policy Research, Department of Emergency Medicine and the School of Social Policy and Practice, 3815 Walnut, Room 201, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-421-1036, fax 215-573-2791

Received 31 October 2009; received in revised form 13 March 2010 and 21 July 2010; accepted 17 August 2010. published online 01 November 2010.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: KVR conceived the study design, obtained research funding, designed the data abstraction forms, and supervised data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of the data. AV and KVR framed the research questions and contributed to the drafting and critical revision of the article. AV conducted the chart review and literature search. KVR 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. This project was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality R01 HS11096. The senior author, Dr. Rhodes, was also supported by NIMH K23 MH64572.

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 Publication date: Available online October 29, 2010.

PII: S0196-0644(10)01426-5

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.08.024

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 57, Issue 4 , Pages 315-322.e1, April 2011

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