Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 519-529, October 2003

The death of a child in the emergency department

  • Stephen R Knazik, DO

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Emergency Services, Children's Hospital of Michigan, and Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Stephen R. Knazik, DO, Emergency Department, Children's Hospital of Michigan, 3901 Beaubien Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48201; 313-745-5710, fax 313-993-7166
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  • Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Little Company of Mary Hospital, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Emergency Medical Services and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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  • Ann M Dietrich, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Columbus Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Medicine, Medflight, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • Claudia Gold, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Emergency Services, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, USA
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  • Ramon W Johnson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center/Children's Hospital at Mission, Mission Viejo, CA, USA
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  • Sharon E Mace, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Ohio State University School of Medicine, and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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  • Mark R Sochor, MS, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Received 10 November 2002; received in revised form 4 April 2003; accepted 13 April 2003.

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 Author contributions: SRK designed the outline and collected individual author submissions. AMD, CRG, RWJ, SEM, and MRS researched and contributed significant sections of the final paper. MG-H contributed ideas, references, coordination, editing, and mentoring. SRK drafted the manuscript. All of the authors contributed substantially to its revisions. SRK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00424-4

doi:10.1067/S0196-0644(03)00424-4

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 519-529, October 2003