Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 151-159 , August 2008

Failure to Validate the San Francisco Syncope Rule in an Independent Emergency Department Population

Presented as an abstract at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2007, Chicago, IL.

Received 20 June 2007 ,Revised 30 October 2007 ,Accepted 3 December 2007.

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 Supervising editor: Robert Silbergleit, MD

 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. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Author contributions: AB, DE, PB, and EJG conceived the study and designed the trial. DE and AW supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. AB, DE, and AW managed the data, including quality control. PB provided statistical advice on study design and data analysis. AB analyzed the data. AB drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. AB takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Publication dates: Available online February 20, 2008.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)01858-6

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.007

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 151-159 , August 2008

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