Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 4 , Pages 371-376 , April 2001

Critical pediatric equipment availability in Canadian hospital emergency departments

  • David McGillivray, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine
    • ,
  • Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Alberta Children’s Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    • ,
  • Michael S. Kramer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine
    • Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Institute
    • ,
  • Hong Yang, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Institute
    • ,
  • Robert Platt, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine
    • Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Institute

Received 9 July 1999 ,Revised 18 September 2000 ,Accepted 4 October 2000.

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☆ Oral presentation at the Ambulatory Pediatric Association/Emergency Medicine meetings, New Orleans, LA, May 1998, and poster presentation at the Canadian Pediatric Association/Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 1998.

☆☆ Supported by a Canadian Association of Emergency Medicine, Hoffmann-La Roche grant.

★ Address for reprints: David McGillivray, MD, Montreal Children’s Hospital, 2300 Tupper Street, Room A-103, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 1P3; E-mail mdmg@musica.mcgill.ca .

PII: S0196-0644(01)73977-7

doi: 10.1067/mem.2001.112253

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 4 , Pages 371-376 , April 2001

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