Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 317-320 , March 1995

Discharge Instructions: Do Illustrations Help Our Patients Understand Them?

Presented as a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 1994.

Received 8 August 1994 ,Accepted 21 September 1994.

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 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine*; East Carolina University School of Medicine (student); and Center for Health Sciences Communication, East Carolina University School of Medicine§, Greenville, North Carolina.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Kathleen A Dunn, MD, MSPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody 4W-54, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, 919-816-2954, Fax 919-816-3589,

 Reprint no. 47/1/62317

PII: S0196-0644(95)70286-5

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 317-320 , March 1995