Characterizing Emergency Department Disposition Conversations for Persons Living With Dementia: Protocol for an Ethnographic Study

Justine Seidenfeld   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, MHS ;   Matthew Tucker   ¹ , BA ;   Melissa Harris-Gersten   ^{1, 4} , BSN, PhD ;   Gemmae M Fix   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Ivonne Guzman   ¹ , BS ;   Nina R Sperber   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Susan N Hastings   ^{1, 7, 8} , MD, MHS

¹ Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT), Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC, United States

² Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States

³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC, United States

⁴ Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, United States

⁵ Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research, VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, United States

⁶ Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States

⁸ Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States