Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 715-723.e1 , June 2009

The Safety of Emergency Care Systems: Results of a Survey of Clinicians in 65 US Emergency Departments

  • David J. Magid, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado and the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: David J. Magid, MD, MPH, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, PO Box 378066, Denver, CO 80237; 303-614-1212, fax 303-614-1285
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  • Ashley F. Sullivan, MS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Paul D. Cleary, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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  • Sowmya R. Rao, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • James A. Gordon, MD, MPA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
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  • Edward Guadagnoli, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Carlos A. Camargo Jr, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • David Blumenthal, MD, MPP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Received 24 June 2008 ,Revised 30 September 2008 ,Accepted 6 October 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: All authors take responsibility for the accuracy of the paper. DJM 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 might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. This project was supported by grant number 5 R01 HS013099 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or in the preparation, review, or approval of the article. All of the authors have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content and have no financial arrangement with a company that makes a product or makes a competing product discussed in the article.

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 Publication date: Available online December 3, 2008.

PII: S0196-0644(08)01863-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.10.007

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 715-723.e1 , June 2009

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