Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 150-160.e4 , August 2006

Randomized Clinical Trial of Morphine in Acute Abdominal Pain

Received 14 September 2005 ,Revised 1 November 2005 ,Accepted 9 November 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Robert K. Knopp, MDAuthor contributions: EJG and ML conceived of the study. CL and ML took primary responsibility for conduct of the trial. EJG, DE, and PEB analyzed the data. EJG wrote the manuscript and all authors contributed substantially to its multiple revisions. EJG takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Publication dates: Available online February 13, 2006.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)01960-8

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.11.020

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 150-160.e4 , August 2006

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