Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 499-506 , December 2005

Team Assignment System: Expediting Emergency Department Care

  • Pankaj B. Patel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Pankaj Patel, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente 2025 Morse Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95825; 916-973-6612
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  • David R. Vinson, MD

Received 27 September 2004 ,Revised 9 June 2005 ,Accepted 14 June 2005.

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 Supervising editor: J. Stephan Stapczynski, MDAuthor contributions: PBP and DRV conceived the study, designed the trial, and obtained institutional review board approval. PBP obtained the data. PBP and DRV analyzed the data, with assistance from a statistical consultant from Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente. PBP and DRV drafted the manuscript, and each contributed substantially to its final result. PBP created figures, with review by DRV. PBP and DRV take responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Presented in part at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, October 2004, San Francisco, CA.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00800-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.06.012

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 499-506 , December 2005

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