Robert Woolard

TL;DR: Clinical data from a multicenter, prospective clinical trial of all patients with chest pain or other symptoms suggesting acute cardiac ischemia who presented to the emergency departments of 10 U.S. hospitals found that 19 patients with acute myocardial infarction were mistakenly discharged from the emergency department.

TL;DR: A clinical trial is reported to test the effect of electrocardiogram-based ACI-TIPI on emergency department triage of patients with chest pain or other symptoms suggestive of acute cardiac ischemia and whether its use would reduce unnecessary hospital and CCU admission for emergency department patients without cardiac ischemic disease or with stable angina pectoris while not reducing hospitalization.

TL;DR: Reductions in alcohol-related injuries and moving violations, and increases in alcohol treatment-seeking were observed across both conditions at both follow-ups with no differences between conditions.

TL;DR: Interventions to decrease drinking in this population of minor-injury patients should focus on increasing patient awareness of the association between drinking, injuries, and other alcohol-related negative consequences.