Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 5 , Pages 504-511 , November 2008

Accuracy of Staff-Initiated Emergency Department Tracking System Timestamps in Identifying Actual Event Times

Presented as a poster at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2005, San Francisco, CA.

  • Bradley D. Gordon, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Regions Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Paul, MN, and the HealthPartners Research Foundation, Bloomington, MN
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Bradley D. Gordon, MD, MS, Regions Hospital, Mailstop 11102F, 640 Jackson Street, St. Paul, MN 55101; 651-254-6994, fax 651-254-5216
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  • Thomas J. Flottemesch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Regions Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Paul, MN, and the HealthPartners Research Foundation, Bloomington, MN
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  • Brent R. Asplin, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Regions Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Paul, MN, and the HealthPartners Research Foundation, Bloomington, MN
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN

Received 19 July 2007 ,Revised 8 November 2007 ,Accepted 27 November 2007.

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 Author contributions: All authors are responsible for study conceptualization and design. BDG coordinated data acquisition, drafted the article, obtained funding and supervised of the study execution. BDG and TJF performed analysis and interpretation of the data. TJF provided detailed statistical support. All authors contributed substantially to the intellectual content and critical revisions of the paper. BDG takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Dr. Gordon is supported by a National Library of Medicine Early Career Development Award in Medical Informatics (K22LM008573-01).

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Publication date: Available online March 7, 2008.

PII: S0196-0644(07)01804-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.11.036

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 5 , Pages 504-511 , November 2008

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