Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 507-511 , December 2005

Accuracy of ECG Interpretation in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Received 1 September 2004 ,Revised 8 March 2005 ,Accepted 17 March 2005.

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 Supervising editor: David M. Jaffe, MDAuthor contributions: JEW, ABR, and MSS conceived the study and designed the trial. JEW and ABR supervised data collection. ATY and MSS reviewed ECGs and assigned blinded interpretations. ABR provided statistical analyses of the data. JEW drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. JEW 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 at the Pediatric Academic Societies' meeting, May 2003, Seattle, WA.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00346-X

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.03.013

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 507-511 , December 2005

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