Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 233-237, March 2002

The reliability of vital sign measurements☆☆*

Emergency Medicine Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.

Received 15 March 2001; received in revised form 16 October 2001 and 13 November 2001; accepted 4 December 2001.

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 Supported in part by the UCLA School of Medicine Short-Term Training Program.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors. Address for correspondence: William R. Mower, MD, PhD, UCLA Emergency Medicine Center, 924 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024; 310-794-0582, fax 310-794-0599; E-mail: wmower@ucla.edu

* Author contributions are provided at the end of this article. Author contributions: ZVE and WRM conceived the study and designed the trial. ZVE, WRM, LML, and RL undertook patient recruitment, enrollment, and data collection. WRM provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. ZVE drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. WRM takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

PII: S0196-0644(02)42324-4

doi:10.1067/mem.2002.122017

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 233-237, March 2002