Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 763-768, December 2009

The Prevalence and Factors Associated With QTc Prolongation Among Emergency Department Patients

Presented as a poster at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2008, Washington DC.

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Received 20 November 2008; received in revised form 4 March 2009; accepted 19 March 2009. published online 08 May 2009.

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 Supervising editors: Deborah B. Diercks, MD; Michael L. Callaham, MD

 Author contributions: MWS conceived the study. MWS, PHA, MH, and ABW designed the study. MWS and PHA supervised the data collection. MWS, PHA, STCC, BWW, and GDF collected the study data. MH provided statistical advice for the study. PHA and MH analyzed the data. MWS and PHA drafted the article. All authors contributed to the manuscript revision. MWS 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. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

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 Publication date: Available online May 6, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)00283-2

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.03.021

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 763-768, December 2009

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