| Recent Publications |
La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D, Leslie Zun, MD, Sandra Jones Gonzales, MPA Utilization of the Emergency Department By Psychiatric Patients. General Psychiatry. April 2009.
La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D. What is the Impact of Free Drug Samples on Doctors? Southern Medical Journal. August 2008.
La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D and Leslie S. Zun MD, Assessing Adult Health Literacy in Urban Healthcare Settings. Journal of the National Medical Association. November 2008.
La Vonne A. Downey Ph D, Leslie Zun, MD, and Sandra Jones Gonzales, MPA “Frequency of Alternatives to Restraints and Seclusion and Uses of Agitation Reduction Techniques in the Emergency Department”, General Hospital Psychiatry, October 2007
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie Zun, MD, “Violence Prediction in the Emergency Department”, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, July 2007.
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie Zun, MD, “Determinates of Throughput Times in the Emergency Department” Journal of Health Management, Volume 9, No. 1, 51-58 August(2007).
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie Zun MD, “Testing of a Verbal Assessment Tool of English Proficiency for Use in the Healthcare Setting”, Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 99, No.7, July 2007.
Leslie S. Zun, MD, MBA and La Vonne A. Downey, PhD. Prospective Medical Clearance of Psychiatric Patients. Primary Psychiatry, April 2008.
La Vonne A. Downey Ph D and Leslie Zun MD. “Application of a Medical Clearance Protocol” Primary Psychiatry, November 2007.
La Vonne A. Downey Ph D, Leslie Zun, MD, and Sandra Jones Gonzales, MPA “ Frequency of Alternatives to Restraints and Seclusion and Uses of Agitation Reduction Techniques in the Emergency Department”, General Hospital Psychiatry, October 2007
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie Zun, MD, “Violence Prediction in the Emergency Department”, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, July 2007.
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie Zun, MD, “Determinates of Throughput Times in the Emergency Department” Journal of Health Management, Volume 9, No. 1, 51-58 August(2007).
La Vonne A. Downey, PhD and Leslie Zun MD, “Testing of a Verbal Assessment Tool of English Proficiency for Use in the Healthcare Setting”, Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 99, No.7, July 2007.
Leslie Zun, M.D., and La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D, “Adult Health Screen and Referrals in the Emergency Department”, Volume 99, Number 9. September 2006, Southern Medical Journal
Leslie Zun, M.D., and La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D, “English Language Competency of Self Declared English Speaking Hispanic Patients”, June 2006, Journal of the National Medical Association.
Leslie Zun, M.D. and La Vonne A. Downey, PhD, “Effectiveness of ED Based Violence Prevention Program”, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, March 2006.
Leslie Zun, M. D. and La Vonne Downey, Ph D. “Pediatric Health Screening and Referral in the ED” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 6, October 2005.
Leslie Zun, MD and La Vonne A. Downey PhD, “The Use of Seclusion in Emergency Medicine” General Hospital Psychiatry, Volume 27, Issue 5, September 2005.
Leslie Zun, MD and La Vonne A. Downey, PhD, “Who are the Young Victims of Violence”, Pediatric Emergency Care, volume 21, Number 9, September 2005.
Leslie Zun, M.D. and La Vonne Downey, Ph D., “The Effects of Noise in the Emergency Department”, Academic Emergency Medicine, July 2005, Vol. 12, No. 7.
Leslie Zun M.D., Roma Hernandez, M.D. and La Vonne A. Downey, PhD, “Comparisons of Laboratory Assessment of Psychiatric Patients by Emergency Physicians and Psychiatrists”. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 22, Number 3, May 2004.
Leslie Zun, M.D., Douglas Blume, Joseph Lester, and La Vonne Downey, Ph D, “Accuracy of Emergency Medical Information on the Web”. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 2, March 2004.
Leslie Zun M.D. and La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D “Is a Third Year Clerkship in Emergency Medicine Correlated with a Career Choice in Emergency Medicine”, Teaching and Learning in Medicine-An International Journal, Volume 16, No 1., 2004.
Leslie Zun, M.D., La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D., and Andrea Rossi. “An Emergency Department Based Program to Change Attitudes Towards Victims of Interpersonal Violence”. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 26, Number 2, February 2004.
Leslie Zun, MD and La Vonne Downey, Ph D, “Reliability of a Short Gun Questionnaire”, The Southern Medical Journal, December 2003.
Leslie Zun, MD, La Vonne A. Downey, Ph. D, and Jodi Rosen M.A, “Violence Prevention in the ED: Linkage of an ED and a Social Service Agency”, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2003, Volume 21, Number 6.
Leslie Zun, MD, La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D. Assessing and Improving Knowledge of Heart Attack Symptoms in the ED (abstract). Second Mediterranean EM Congress, September 2003.
Leslie Zun, M.D, and La Vonne A. Downey, Ph D, “The Tetanus Shortage and Its Impact on Vaccination in the Emergency Department”, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 21, July 2003, Number 4.
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| Recent Presentations |
Patients understanding of Reasons for Admit, 12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, April 2008
Assessing Health Literacy of Patients in an Urban Health Setting, 12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, April 2008
Over Utilization of the ED by Psychiatric Patients at the International Psychiatric Organization, April 2008 Nice, France
Determinates of Throughput Time in the ED, NCR, sent to hospitals nationwide, March 2008
Do Restraints Reduce the Level of Agitation? Continuing Medical Education at Mt Sinai Hospital/ New York 2008.
"CHANGES IN UTILIZATION OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
BY PSYCHATRIC PATIENTS by La Vonne A. Downey and Leslie Zun, American Emergency Medicine Anual Meeting, October 2007.
“Comparison of Agitation Reduction Techniques in the Emergency Department”, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 2006, Toronto, Canada.
“Measuring Health Literacy in a Healthcare Setting” Annual Meeting of SAEM, Detroit, September 2005.
“Validation of a Verbal Assessment Tool of English Competency in the ED” Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, May 2005, New York.
“Level of Agitation of Patients Presenting to an Emergency Department” at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 25, 2005 in Atlanta, GA.
“English Language Competency of Self Declared English Speaking Hispanic Patients”, American Society of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, San Francisco, October 17-18.
“Validation of a Verbal Assessment Tool of English Competency for use in the Emergency Department”, Annual Meeting of SAEM, Milwaukee, September 10, 2004.
“Using the Emergency Department to Recruit Minority Populations into Clinical Studies” Association of Clinical Researchers, San Diego, May 2004.
“Assessing Heart and Lung Sound in the Emergency Department”, American College of Emergence Physicians, October, 2003.
“Pediatric Health Screening and Referral in the Emergency Department”, The Second Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress Meeting, September 2003.
“Assessing and Improving Knowledge of Heart Attack Symptoms in the ED”, The Second Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress Meeting, September 2003
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