Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 2 , Pages 224-232 , February 2004

Derivation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule to predict patients with short-term serious outcomes

  • James V Quinn, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: James V. Quinn, MD, MS, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, 701 Welch Road, Building C, Palo Alto, CA 94304; 650-723-6576, fax 650-723-0121
    • Dr. Quinn is currently affiliated with the Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
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  • Ian G Stiell, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Daniel A McDermott, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Karen L Sellers, RN

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Michael A Kohn, MD, MPP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • George A Wells, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Received 7 March 2003 ,Revised 31 July 2003 ,Accepted 13 August 2003.

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☆ Author contributions: JVQ, IGS, and GAW conceived and designed the trial. JVQ, DAM, KLS, and MAK supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection and provided database management and quality control. JVQ, IGS, MAK, and GAW contributed to the statistical analysis with advice, with JVQ and IGS doing the primary analysis. JVQ drafted the manuscript, with all authors contributing significantly to its revisions. JVQ takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00823-0

doi: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00823-0

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 2 , Pages 224-232 , February 2004

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