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| Leslie S ZunSummaryAffiliation: Mount Sinai Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Comparison of EPs' and psychiatrists' laboratory assessment of psychiatric patientsLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
Am J Emerg Med 22:175-80. 2004..Further means to obtain congruence in the testing protocol of psychiatric patients would be a valuable endeavor...- Accuracy of emergency medical information on the webLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University of Health Sciences The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Emerg Med 22:94-7. 2004..Thus, most web sites are not good sources of reference for the public to find out what to do in the case of a medical emergency... - Is a third year clerkship in emergency medicine correlated with a career choice in emergency medicine?Leslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School, Mount Sinai Hospital, Illinois 60608, USA
Teach Learn Med 16:14-7. 2004..The factors medical students use to choose emergency medicine (EM) as a career path have not been well studied. The role of a 3rd year clerkship in EM in a student's choice of EM residency is not known... - Reliability of a short gun questionnaireLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA
South Med J 96:1238-42. 2003..The purpose of the study was to develop and test a short gun questionnaire and compare its reliability to a long gun questionnaire to identify youths who may have access to or ownership of a gun... - The effect of noise in the emergency departmentLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:663-6. 2005..It is hypothesized that high ambient noise in the emergency department (ED) adversely affects the ability of the examiner to hear heart and lung sounds... - Who are the young victims of violence?Leslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 21:568-73. 2005..Although young victims of intentional violence are commonly cared for in emergency departments, minimal information exists regarding the characteristics of these young people. This study fills that knowledge gap... - The use of seclusion in emergency medicineLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 27:365-71. 2005..The primary purpose of this study was to determine the extent of the use of seclusion in EDs in the United States. The secondary purpose was to describe seclusion use in EDs... - Psychosocial needs of young persons who are victims of interpersonal violenceLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 19:15-9. 2003..We conducted this study to determine the needs of victims of interpersonal violence using a psychosocial assessment tool administered in the ED... - Adult health screening and referral in the emergency departmentLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School, USA
South Med J 99:940-8. 2006..A secondary objective was to determine if the patient would accept health referrals and follow-up with a doctor or clinic... - 1st- and 2nd-year medical student exposure to emergency medicineLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, 15th and California, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Teach Learn Med 14:164-7. 2002..Medical societies in emergency medicine (EM) have recommended teaching EM topics in the preclinical years of medical school. However, the magnitude of integrating an EM curriculum into the 1st and 2nd year of medical school is unknown... 
Does gun accessibility lead to violence-related injury?La Vonne A Downey
School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, 430 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
South Med J 106:161-72. 2013..The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between access to guns and the risk of violence-related injuries in youth and young adults...- An emergency department-based program to change attitudes of youth toward violenceLeslie S Zun
Department of Related Health Sciences, Finch University/Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Emerg Med 26:247-51. 2004..41) and the control group (63 to.50). The results of this study demonstrate a lack of attitudinal changes. This may be attributed to limitations of study design and an inherent difficulty in dealing with high-risk inner city youth... - Pediatric health screening and referral in the EDLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, IL 60069, USA
Am J Emerg Med 23:737-41. 2005..Insurance status had no bearing on the need for referrals. Assessment in the pediatric population for unmet health care needs was found to be a low-yielding, labor-intensive process... - Violence prevention in the ED: linkage of the ED to a social service agencyLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University/Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Emerg Med 21:454-7. 2003..728, significance =.00). The referral of young victims of violence from the ED to psychosocial services could be successful using a case management model and an alliance between a healthcare system and a social service agency... - Expectations of an emergency medicine clerkship directorRobert L Rogers
Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Maryland School of Medicine RLR, Baltimore, MD, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:513-8. 2011..This reference document serves as a template for the job description and expectations of an EM CD... 
English-language competency of self-declared English-speaking Hispanic patients using written tests of health literacyLeslie S Zun
Finch University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School Chicago, IL, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 98:912-7. 2006..This study demonstrated that that there was significant lack of English-language ability of self-declared Hispanic patients, suggesting that a more liberal use of interpreters may be indicated...- Pitfalls in the care of the psychiatric patient in the emergency departmentLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
J Emerg Med 43:829-35. 2012..Care of the psychiatric patient in the Emergency Department (ED) is evolving. As with other disease states, there are a number of pitfalls that complicate the care of the psychiatric patient... - Evidence-based evaluation of psychiatric patientsLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago Medical School and Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
J Emerg Med 28:35-9. 2005..This review applies the rigors of evidence-based evaluation of the medical literature that is currently available to determine when it is safe to place a patient with behavioral complaints under psychiatric care... - Patients' self-treatment with alternative treatment before presenting to the EDLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University/Chicago Medical School, IL, USA
Am J Emerg Med 20:473-5. 2002..Emergency physicians need to consider the use of alternative treatment and medicine by patients presenting to the ED for treatment... - The effectiveness of an ED-based violence prevention programLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Roosevelt University/Chicago Medical School, IL 60608, USA
Am J Emerg Med 24:8-13. 2006..Further research is needed to confirm if ED-based violence prevention programs are effective in reducing other determinants for revictimization... - The correlation between patient comprehension of their reason for hospital admission and overall patient satisfaction in the emergency departmentLa Vonne A Downey
Roosevelt University School of Policy Studies, 430 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 102:637-43. 2010..1) To determine the patient's comprehension of the reasons for admission in the emergency department and (2) to examine what, if any, correlation there is between patients' understanding and satisfaction with care... - The impact of watching cartoons for distraction during painful procedures in the emergency departmentLa Vonne A Downey
Roosevelt University, Health Services Public Administration, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 28:1033-5. 2012..The purpose of this study was to determine whether the viewing of cartoons in the acute care setting reduces the perception of pain by pediatric patients... - Assessing adult health literacy in urban healthcare settingsLa Vonne A Downey
Roosevelt University, School of Policy Studies, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:1304-8. 2008..The second purpose of the study was to identify and assess predictors of low or adequate health literacy in order to better accommodate the communication needs of these patients... - Evidence-based treatment of psychiatric patientLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago Medical School and Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Emerg Med 28:277-83. 2005..This review applies the rigors of an evidence-based evaluation of the literature concerning the choices of treatment for these patients... - Gender differences in narcotic-induced emesis in the EDLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University Chicago Medical School and Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Am J Emerg Med 20:151-4. 2002..The nausea and vomiting was associated with female sex and the cause of pain. A comparative study of other pain medications versus narcotics for incidence of induced nausea and emesis would be useful... - Undiagnosed mental illness in the emergency departmentLa Vonne A Downey
Health Services Public Administration, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
J Emerg Med 43:876-82. 2012..Mental illness affects 8% of the population. The early identification and treatment of mental illness can reduce the progression and complications of the illness... - Frequency of alternative to restraints and seclusion and uses of agitation reduction techniques in the emergency departmentLa Vonne A Downey
School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:470-4. 2007..The second purpose was to determine the reasons for differing levels of usage and/or compliance with the JCAHO recommendations... - Emergency medicine in the medical school curriculumDavid A Wald
Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:S26-30. 2010..Patients presenting to the ED span the entire spectrum: young and old, sick and not sick. It is this variety of cases that makes the ED a truly valuable setting for educating students... - Violence prediction in the Emergency DepartmentLa Vonne A Downey
School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
J Emerg Med 33:307-12. 2007..These same questions were able to track those who continued to engage in high-risk violent behaviors 1 month later... - A prospective study of the complication rate of use of patient restraint in the emergency departmentLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University/Chicago Medical School, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA
J Emerg Med 24:119-24. 2003..We found that male patients were most often restrained for violent and disruptive behavior. Most commonly, two restraints were used in combination with chemical restraints for a duration of almost 5 h... - The effects of deep breathing training on pain management in the emergency departmentLa Vonne A Downey
Health Services, Department of Public Administration Political Science, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
South Med J 102:688-92. 2009..A secondary purpose was to measure the impact of deep breathing teaching on indicators of patient satisfaction... - Tetanus immunization shortage in the United StatesLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Finch University/Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Am J Emerg Med 21:298-301. 2003..8% (11 of 616) got the prioritization correct. Although EM directors uniformly know about and are experiencing the tetanus shortage, few correctly reported the tetanus immunization priority. Few EDs had a patient callback system... - Pain management in the emergency department and its relationship to patient satisfactionLa Vonne A Downey
Roosevelt University Health Services, 430 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
J Emerg Trauma Shock 3:326-30. 2010..Pain is the most common reason due to which patients come to the emergency department (ED)... - Indicators of potential for rupture for ectopics seen in the emergency departmentLa Vonne A Downey
School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USA
J Emerg Trauma Shock 4:374-7. 2011..Emergency departments (ED) frequently evaluate patients with probable ectopic pregnancies who go home and may rupture. It would be beneficial to know which patient factors are associated with rupture and which are not... - Completeness and accuracy of emergency medical information on the web: update 2008Leslie S Zun
Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
West J Emerg Med 12:448-54. 2011..With this update we seek to build upon on the 2004 study by determining whether the completeness and accuracy of emergency medical information available online has improved over time... - Level of agitation of psychiatric patients presenting to an emergency departmentLeslie S Zun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Chicago Medical School, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and the School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Ill
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 10:108-13. 2008..Further study of the level of agitation and the effects of restraints is needed... - Competencies for youth violence prevention and controlLeslie S Zun
Acad Emerg Med 10:406-7; author reply 407. 2003