Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Pages 448-454 , May 2006

Prospective Validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule to Predict Patients With Serious Outcomes

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2004, Orlando, FL.

  • James Quinn, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: James Quinn, MD, MS, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, 701 Welch Rd, Suite C103, Palo Alto, CA 94304; 650-736-4391, fax 650-723-0121
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  • Daniel McDermott, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • Ian Stiell, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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  • Michael Kohn, MD, MPP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • George Wells, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Received 20 October 2005 ,Revised 1 November 2005 ,Accepted 7 November 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Judd E. Hollander, MDAuthor contributions: JQ, IS, and GW conceived and designed the trial. JQ, DM, and MK supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection and provided database management and quality control. JQ, IS, MK, and GW contributed to the statistical analysis with advice, with JQ and IS doing the primary analysis. JQ drafted the manuscript, with all authors contributing significantly to its revisions. JQ takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: JQ is funded through a career development grant from the National Institutes of Health, K23, AR002137-050.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)01959-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.11.019

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Pages 448-454 , May 2006

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