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• Correspondence
  • Editorial correspondence
  • Advertising correspondence
• Subscriptions
• Additional services
  • Reprints and copies
  • Photocopying
  • Derivative works
  • Electronic storage or usage
  • Notice
  • Indexing and abstracting
  • Change of address

Annals of Emergency Medicine is the official publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians (www.acep.org). The journal is provided to all ACEP members as a membership benefit. For information about becoming an ACEP member, contact ACEP's member services department at the address below. For your convenience, a postage-paid card for obtaining membership information is included in every issue of the journal.

Annals of Emergency Medicine is published by Elsevier Inc. Visit our Web site at www.mosby.com/AnnEmergMed.

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Correspondence 

Editorial correspondence 

Address communications regarding original articles and editorial management to Annals of Emergency Medicine at the address below. Instructions for Authors appear in every issue. Authors should consult these instructions before submitting manuscripts to the journal.

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Subscriptions 

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Reprints and copies 

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Notice 

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Indexing and abstracting 

Volume indexes appear in the June and December issues. Before 1994, an index was published annually in December.

Abstracted and/or indexed in Index Medicus, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Abstracts of Health Care Management Studies, Dental Literature Index, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, FAMLI, I.P.A. INIS Atomind. (International Nuclear Information System), Lab. Haz. Bull., Revista Medica, and Vet. Mycol.

Change of address 

Please use the return postage-paid card included in each issue to change address for ACEP members and for Annals subscribers.