@article{ref1,
title="Usefulness of computerized pediatric motor vehicle safety discharge instructions",
journal="Academic emergency medicine",
year="2003",
author="Zonfrillo, Mark R. and Mello, Michael J. and Palmisciano, Lynne M.",
volume="10",
number="10",
pages="1131-1133",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To determine whether providing child  motor vehicle safety recommendations on computerized discharge instructions  (CDIs) were useful to parents and modified their use of child-restraint devices  (CRDs). METHODS: The subjects were guardians of children seen in an urban  pediatric emergency department (ED). An intervention group was given  computerized ED discharge instructions that included the National Highway  Traffic Safety Administration recommendations for motor vehicle CRDs. A control  group was given CDIs without the recommendations. All subjects were subsequently  called within four days of the ED visit and asked questions about their  knowledge and use of CRDs. They also were queried if the recommendations  affected their knowledge or changed their behavior. RESULTS: There were 52  subjects in the control group and 58 in the intervention group. Fifty-seven  percent of the intervention group remembered reading a safety tip (p < 0.001,  95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.32 to 0.62), and 82% of that subset correctly  identified it pertaining to motor vehicle safety. Forty-five percent (n = 33) of  those who remembered the safety recommendation in the intervention group  supported it being educational (p = 0.067, 95% CI = 0.28 to 0.64). Ten percent  of the subjects in the intervention group said the CDIs changed their behavior  regarding buckling-up their child, compared with 0% of the control group (p =  0.473, 95% CI = 0.05 to 0.32). CONCLUSIONS: Including CRD information on CDIs is  a convenient method of educating guardians of patients about motor vehicle  safety in a pediatric ED setting. The data suggest that parents find it  educational and a smaller subgroup change their behaviors after receiving  them.",
language="",
issn="1069-6563",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}