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

Received 14 February 2005 ,Revised 6 April 2005 ,Accepted 18 April 2005.

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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.

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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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