Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 396-406 , October 2007

Emergency Department Communication Links and Patterns

Presented as an abstract at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2006, San Francisco, CA; and the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, May 2006, Orlando, FL; and presented as a conference proceeding at the Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, April 2005, Charlottesville, VA; and the International Ergonomics Association annual meeting, July 2006, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

  • Rollin J. Fairbanks, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Rollin J. (Terry) Fairbanks, MD, MS, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642; 585-273-3849, fax 585-275-2092
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  • Ann M. Bisantz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.
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  • Michelle Sunm, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.

Received 7 June 2006 ,Revised 20 January 2007 ,Accepted 16 March 2007.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: RJF and AMB conceived the study, designed the study, obtained research funding, and supervised the conduct of the study and data collection. RJF and MS undertook recruitment of ED staff member participants. MS performed all observations and entered the data. AMB and MS managed the data. All investigators participated in the analysis, and AMB provided statistical oversight. RJF drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. MS designed the figures and tables under the supervision of RJF and AMB. RJF takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that may create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Support was provided for this study by the Ronald McDonald House Children’s Charities Research Fund. At the time of the study, Dr. Bisantz and Ms. Sunm were partially supported by the National Science Foundation (grant no. IIE9984079); and Dr. Fairbanks, by the NIH (1R41NR009592) and AHRQ (1U18HS015818).

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PII: S0196-0644(07)00357-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.005

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 396-406 , October 2007

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