Edwin Boudreaux

..The authors conducted a pre-post trial investigating the effects of introducing a templated chart on the documentation of pain assessments and the provision of analgesia to ED patients...

..Technological advances hold much potential for addressing the barriers preventing the integration of brief interventions for tobacco cessation into the health care setting...

..Although popular clinically, the psychometric properties of motivation rulers for tobacco cessation are unknown. This study examined the psychometric properties of rulers assessing importance, readiness, and confidence in tobacco cessation...

..This paper presents the tenets underlying the Sentinel Event Method, describes the steps comprising the process, and illustrates its application to EM through an example of a cardiac-related ED visit and tobacco use...

..The objective was to describe continuity of care approaches for psychiatric emergencies in the emergency department...

..To describe the Psychiatric Emergency Research Collaboration (PERC), the methods used to create a structured chart review tool and the results of our multicenter study...

..A priori hypothesis generation grounded in conceptual models of health behavior, followed by empirical validation of these hypotheses, is needed to improve preventive and public health-related interventions in emergency care settings...

..Experiencing a serious consequence related to one's health behavior may motivate behavior change...

..Because many underinsured Americans use the ED as a source of regular health care, the public health implications of increasing screening, counseling, and referral for smokers are substantial...

..To examine factors associated with motivation to quit smoking and interest in an emergency department (ED)-based intervention...

..ED-based tobacco control would allow the specialty to help fulfill the Healthy People 2010 mandate to reduce the prevalence of smoking among US citizens...

..ED-based tobacco control would allow the specialty to help fulfill the Healthy People 2010 mandate to reduce the prevalence of smoking among US citizens...

..We identify key research questions essential to advancing the science of emergency care and discuss the barriers and strategies to advance research by exploring the collaboration between NIH and the emergency care community...

..This study examined the variability of blood pressure measurements and prevalence estimates of elevated blood pressure in emergency department (ED) patients using 4 different methods of categorization...

..Emergency departments (EDs) have strong potential to initiate tobacco interventions with economically disadvantaged populations...

..Future studies are planned to establish its efficacy at promoting treatment initiation and abstinence...

..We hypothesized adult parenting smokers in the emergency department (ED) have a higher interest in quitting and may be more amenable to tobacco cessation counseling than smokers without children...

..We describe here the implementation at 14 Academic EDs of a structured SBIRT curriculum to determine if this learning experience improves provider beliefs and practices...

..In addition to barriers attributable to socioeconomic factors, health care providers and policy makers should target equalizing deficiencies in preventive medication prescription practices...

..Providers may need to use more active, behaviorally focused interventions for the more advanced behavior while simultaneously implementing more cognitively focused interventions for the less advanced one...

..The authors examined the stability of predictors of ED patient satisfaction across multiple assessments over 17 months...

..The authors also expected overall ED satisfaction to be more strongly associated with perceived throughput times compared with actual throughput times, regardless of acuity...

..The authors hypothesized that several variables would be associated with stage of change, including nicotine dependence, self-efficacy, presence of a smoking-related illness, and anticipated cessation-related health improvement...

..The authors reviewed the evidence on performance improvement methods for increasing emergency department (ED) patient satisfaction to provide evidence-based suggestions for clinical practice...

..42 to 0.64, p < 0.001). Consistent with the DP, when throughput times exceeded expectations, dissatisfaction with those throughput times arose, leading to general dissatisfaction with the ED visit...

..Experiencing a serious adverse behavior-related consequence may motivate behavior change...

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..Using two EDs as examples, the authors describe practical strategies designed to identify priority areas for potential improvement...

..The results will inform the development of new interventions designed to translate the teachable moment afforded by a healthcare encounter into lasting behavior change. ..

..The model and approach are innovative, because they involve not only validating a new dynamic model of health behavior, but because of the use of a novel measurement strategy -- cell phone-based ecological momentary assessment. ..

..Such an expansion of the model to a second clinical population will allow the establishment of stronger, more reliable evidence about the theoretical underpinnings described in the SEM. ..