Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 525-533, December 2005

Emergency Physicians' Fear of Malpractice in Evaluating Patients With Possible Acute Cardiac Ischemia

From the Department of Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA (Katz); Departments of Medicine and Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (Williams); Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (Aufderheide); Department of Nursing (Brown), Section of Emergency Medicine (Bogner), and Division of Cardiology (Rahko) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts–New England Medical Center, Boston, MA (Selker)

Received 14 February 2005; received in revised form 6 April 2005; accepted 18 April 2005. published online 14 July 2005.

SEE EDITORIAL, P. 534.

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 Supervising editor: J. Stephan Stapczynski, MDAuthor contributions: DAK was responsible for study concept and design and drafting of the manuscript. DAK, TPA, and MB were responsible for acquisition of the data. DAK, GCW, and RLB conducted analysis and interpretation of the data. DAK, GCW, RLB, TPA, MB, PSR, and HPS were involved in critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. RB contributed statistical expertise. DAK and HPS obtained funding. DAK and TPA were responsible for study supervision. DAK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01 HS10466), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program (Dr. Katz), with supplemental support from the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine.Presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine annual meeting, May 2004, Washington, DC.

 The views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00468-3

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.04.016

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 525-533, December 2005

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