Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 223-232 , March 2002

Effect of vital signs on triage decisions

Presented at the third annual Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Research Forum, Portland, OR, May 2000.

Received 7 May 2001 ,Revised 25 October 2001 ,Accepted 9 November 2001.

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☆ Dr. Cooper was supported in part by National Research Service Award F32 HS00134-01 from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Dr. Schriger was supported in part by an unrestricted gift to support health services research from the MedAmerica Corporation.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors. Address for correspondence: Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS, 924 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024; 310-794-0583, fax 310-794-0599; E-mail: richelle@ucla.edu

* Author contributions are provided at the end of this article. Author contributions: RJC, HLF, EJL, and KAH contributed to the acquisition of data (data management). RJC, DLS, and EJL contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data. RJC drafted the original manuscript, and RJC and DLS provided critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and statistical expertise. KAH provided administrative and technical support. RJC supervised research staff, and DLS supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. DLS participated in the revision of the initial drafts. All authors participated in the editing of draft manuscripts and approval of the final work. RJC and DLS take responsibility for the article as a whole.

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doi: 10.1067/mem.2002.121524

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 223-232 , March 2002

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