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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editors

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• • ·What's Coming in Annals ? December 2017

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• • ·Calendar

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• • ·Classified 2017 Advertising Rates & Information : New value-added feature—your Ad online at no additional cost!

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• • ·Classified

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• News and Perspective

  • ·The “Ubulance” : Ride Hailing’s Role in EMS Transport

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    Eric Berger

    
  • ·Robert L. “Bob” Wears, Emergency Medicine Elder Statesman, Patient Safety Expert, Dies : Colleagues, Friends Recall His Brilliance, Humility

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    Eric Berger

     

• Global Research Highlights

  • ·Global Research Highlights

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  • ·Information for Readers

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• Health Policy

  • ·The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Utilization in Maryland Emergency Departments

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    Eili Y. Klein, Scott Levin, Matthew F. Toerper, Michael D. Makowsky, Tim Xu, Gai Cole, Gabor D. Kelen

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  • ·Emergency Department Involvement in Accountable Care Organizations in Massachusetts: A Survey Study

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    Nissa J. Ali, J. Michael McWilliams, Stephen K. Epstein, Peter B. Smulowitz

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• Images in Emergency Medicine

  • ·Woman With Swelling of the Left Breast

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    Yu-Lin Tai, Nan-Chang Chiu, Hsin Chi, Till T. Bachmann, Fu-Yuan Huang, Chien-Yu Lin

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  • ·Adolescent Male With Abdominal Pain

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    Naveen Sasanka Wijekoon, Juan Bortagaray, Peter Ferguson, Simon Craig

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• Health Policy

  • ·The Effect of Utilization Review on Emergency Department Operations

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    Shoma Desai, Phillip F. Gruber, Erick Eiting, Seth A. Seabury, Wendy J. Mack, Christian Voyageur, Veronica Vasquez, Hyung T. Kim, Sophie Terp

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  • ·Optimal Measurement Interval for Emergency Department Crowding Estimation Tools

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    Hao Wang, Rohit P. Ojha, Richard D. Robinson, Bradford E. Jackson, Sajid A. Shaikh, Chad D. Cowden, Rath Shyamanand, JoAnna Leuck, Chet D. Schrader, Nestor R. Zenarosa

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  • ·An Emergency Medicine–Primary Care Partnership to Improve Rural Population Health: Expanding the Role of Emergency Medicine

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    Margaret B. Greenwood-Ericksen, Renuka Tipirneni, Mahshid Abir

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• The Practice of Emergency Medicine

  • ·Patients’ Perspectives on Outcomes of Care After Discharge From the Emergency Department: A Qualitative Study

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    Samuel Vaillancourt, M. Bianca Seaton, Michael J. Schull, Amy H.Y. Cheng, Dorcas E. Beaton, Andreas Laupacis, Katie N. Dainty

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  • ·Emergency Department Escalation in Theory and Practice: A Mixed-Methods Study Using a Model of Organizational Resilience

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    Jonathan Back, Alastair J. Ross, Myanna D. Duncan, Peter Jaye, Katherine Henderson, Janet E. Anderson

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  • ·The Secret Life of Policies

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    Robert L. Wears

    
  • ·A Custom-Developed Emergency Department Provider Electronic Documentation System Reduces Operational Efficiency

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    Joshua Feblowitz, Sukhjit S. Takhar, Michael J. Ward, Ryan Ribeira, Adam B. Landman

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  • ·Emergency Physician Use of Cognitive Strategies to Manage Interruptions

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    Raj M. Ratwani, Allan Fong, Josh S. Puthumana, Aaron Z. Hettinger

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  • ·Shared Decisionmaking in the Emergency Department: A Guiding Framework for Clinicians

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    Marc A. Probst, Hemal K. Kanzaria, Elizabeth M. Schoenfeld, Michael D. Menchine, Maggie Breslin, Cheryl Walsh, Edward R. Melnick, Erik P. Hess

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• Ethics

  • ·Refusal of Emergency Medical Treatment: Case Studies and Ethical Foundations

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    Catherine A. Marco, Jay M. Brenner, Chadd K. Kraus, Norine A. McGrath, Arthur R. Derse, ACEP Ethics Committee

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  • ·Capacity? Informed Consent; Informed Discharge? Uncertainty!

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    Lewis R. Goldfrank, Ian Wittman

    
  • ·“Futile Care”—An Emergency Medicine Approach: Ethical and Legal Considerations

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    Jeremy R. Simon, Chadd Kraus, Mark Rosenberg, David H. Wang, Elizabeth P. Clayborne, Arthur R. Derse

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• Injury Prevention

  • ·Variance in the Efficacy of Brief Interventions to Reduce Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption Between Injury and Noninjury Patients in Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

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    Catherine Elzerbi, Kim Donoghue, Sadie Boniface, Colin Drummond

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• Cardiology

  • ·Clinical Policy: Emergency Department Management of Patients Needing Reperfusion Therapy for Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

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• Change of Shift

  • ·Of Sugar and Stab Wounds

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    Tess L. Hick

    
  • ·I’ll Fly Away

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    Meghan G. Liroff

    
  • ·Robert L. Wears, MD, PhD, 1947–2017

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    Don Kamens

    

• Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club

  • ·Medicaid and Moral Hazard: Covering Emergency Department Visits Increases Emergency Department Visits…or Not? : November 2017 Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club

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    Tarak Trivedi

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• Images in Emergency Medicine

  • ·Newborn With a Rash

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    Matthew Cully, Benjamin F. Jackson

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  • ·Woman With Headache and Neck Swelling

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    Randy M. Kring, Heidi M. Goddard, Michael T. Wilmot, Casey Z. MacVane

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  • ·Elderly Woman With Chest Pain and Cough

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    Siu Fai Li, Kathryn Koons, Fernando Barajas

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  • ·Man With Blunt Abdominal Trauma

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    Yudai Iwasaki, Ryota Inokuchi, Kazuaki Shinohara

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  • ·Child With a Serpinginous Structure in the Bowel

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    Michael Lee, Chris A. Rees, Martha M. Munden

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• EM:RAP Commentary

  • ·You Traveled the World and All You Got Was Ascariasis

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    James Willis, Andrea G. Tenner, Andrew Grock, Jessica Mason

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• Correspondence

  • ·Treatment Goal for Agitation: Sedation or Calming

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    Leslie Zun, Michael P. Wilson, Kimberly Nordstrom

    
  • ·In reply:

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    Geoffrey K. Isbister

    
  • ·Prognostic Assessment of Febrile Neutropenia in the Emergency Department

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    Alberto Carmona-Bayonas, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca

    
  • ·In reply:

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    Jessica Mason, Michael Paddock, Thomas DeLoughery, Andrew Grock

    

• Book and Media Reviews

  • ·Atlas of Emergency Medicine Procedures

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    Jason D. Heiner

    
  • ·Medical Toxicology: Antidotes and Anecdotes

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    Brandon Wills, Lindsay Taylor

    
  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Initial Evaluation and Management of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department in Early Pregnancy’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 69 (2017) 241-250.e20]

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    Sigrid A. Hahn, Susan B. Promes, Michael D. Brown

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 69 (2017) 98-107.e6]

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    Stephen J. Wolf, Gerald E. Maloney, Richard D. Shih, Bradley D. Shy, Michael D. Brown

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation of Adult Patients With Suspected Transient Ischemic Attack in the Emergency Department’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 68 (2016) 354-370.e29]

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    Bruce M. Lo, Christopher R. Carpenter, Benjamin W. Hatten, Brian J. Wright, Michael D. Brown

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy for Well-Appearing Infants and Children Younger Than 2 Years of Age Presenting to the Emergency Department With Fever’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 67 (2016) 625-639.e13]

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    Sharon E. Mace, Seth R. Gemme, Jonathan H. Valente, Barnet Eskin, Katherine Bakes, Deena Brecher, Michael D. Brown

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Use of Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator for the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Emergency Department’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 66 (2015) 322-333.e31]

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    Michael D. Brown, John H. Burton, Devorah J. Nazarian, Susan B. Promes

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients With Suspected Acute Nontraumatic Thoracic Aortic Dissection’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 65 (2015) 32-42.e12]

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    Deborah B. Diercks, Susan B. Promes, Jeremiah D. Schuur, Kaushal Shah, Jonathan H. Valente, Stephen V. Cantrill

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Seizures’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 63 (2014) 437-447.e15]

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    J. Stephen Huff, Edward R. Melnick, Christian A. Tomaszewski, Molly E.W. Thiessen, Andy S. Jagoda, Francis M. Fesmire

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  • ·Correction : Correction to ‘Clinical Policy: Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in the Emergency Department’ [Annals of Emergency Medicine 63 (2014) 247-258.e18]

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    Steven A. Godwin, John H. Burton, Charles J. Gerardo, Benjamin W. Hatten, Sharon E. Mace, Scott M. Silvers, Francis M. Fesmire

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