Barriers to Enrolling Mental Health Emergency Patients in a Quality Improvement Study.
This article focuses on barriers to enrolling patients experiencing mental health emergencies in emergency departments (EDs) into research studies. The study found significant challenges in reaching and recruiting patients after discharge, primarily due to disconnected or unreachable phones, patient...
| Publicado en: | Academic Emergency Medicine Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 1 - 4 |
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| Formato: | letter research Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2026
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