Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 448-451 , April 2005

Reassessing the Methods of Medical Record Review Studies in Emergency Medicine Research

Received 29 January 2004 ,Revised 15 November 2004 ,Accepted 16 November 2004.

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 Author contributions: AW conceived, designed, and supervised the study. RDB, CMF, and KE contributed to study design; PC contributed to database design. AW and CMF conducted the article searches. RDB, PC, and SU performed data collection, and AW and KE performed data analysis. AW, RDB, CMF, and KE drafted the manuscript, and AW, RDB, CMF, KE, and SU contributed substantially to its revision. AW takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Presented as an abstract at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2004.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)01713-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.11.021

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 448-451 , April 2005

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