Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 577-585, December 2004

Emergency department crowding and thrombolysis delays in acute myocardial infarction

From the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Schull, Vermeulen, Morrison); the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (Schull) and Department of Emergency Services (Schull, Morrison), Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the Department of Medicine (Schull, Morrison) and the Division of Cardiology (Daly), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (Slaughter)

Received 9 March 2004; received in revised form 11 May 2004; accepted 13 May 2004. published online 28 October 2004.

See editorial, p. 586.

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 Author contributions: MJS originated the hypothesis, designed the study, and had main responsibility for interpreting the results and writing the manuscript. MV helped design the study, conducted data analyses, and helped interpret the results and write the manuscript. GS collected data, organized a database, conducted data analyses, and edited the manuscript. LM helped design the study, interpret the results, and edit the manuscript. PD provided the MACSTRAK data and helped design the analysis, interpret the data, and edit the manuscript. MJS takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Supported by a grant from the Peter Lougheed Medical Research Foundation. The MACSTRAK Project is supported by Hoffmann-La Roche Canada. None of these organizations was involved in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; or the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.

 Dr. Schull has a Career Award from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)00523-2

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.05.004

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    Annals of Emergency Medicine January 2005 (Vol. 45, Issue 1, Page 84)

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 577-585, December 2004

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