Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 8, Issue 6 , Pages 360-367, November 2008

Why Do Parents Bring Children to the Emergency Department for Nonurgent Conditions? A Qualitative Study

From the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pa (Ms Berry); Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Department of Population Health, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis (Dr Brousseau); Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dr Brotanek and Dr Flores); Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Tex (Dr Brotanek and Dr Flores); and Signature Science LLC, Austin, Tex (Ms Tomany-Korman)

Received 18 March 2008; accepted 11 July 2008. published online 06 October 2008.

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 Presented in part at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Calif, May 2, 2006; AcademyHealth, Seattle, Wash, June 25, 2006; and American Public Health Association, Boston, Mass, November 7, 2006.

PII: S1530-1567(08)00161-5

doi:10.1016/j.ambp.2008.07.001

Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 8, Issue 6 , Pages 360-367, November 2008

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