Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 77-81 , January 2005

Clinically significant changes in nausea as measured on a visual analog scale

Received 8 June 2004 ,Revised 19 July 2004 ,Accepted 23 July 2004.

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 Author contributions: GWH conceived the study and designed the trial. GWH, NFD, and KF supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. NFD and KF undertook recruitment of participating patients and managed the data, including quality control. GWH provided statistical advice and analyzed the data. GWH and NFD drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed to its revision. GWH takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Presented as an abstract at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2003, Boston, MA.The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)01205-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.07.446

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 77-81 , January 2005

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