Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 3 , Pages 256-262, September 2008

Tort Claims and Adverse Events in Emergency Medical Services

Presented at the National Association of EMS Physicians annual meeting, January 2007, Naples, FL.

  • Henry E. Wang, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Henry E. Wang, MD, MS, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; 412-647-4925, fax 412-647-6999
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  • Rollin J. Fairbanks, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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  • Manish N. Shah, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
    • Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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  • Benjamin N. Abo, BS, NREMT-P

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Donald M. Yealy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Received 7 September 2007; received in revised form 7 December 2007 and 7 February 2008; accepted 19 February 2008. published online 14 April 2008.

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 Supervising editors: Daniel W. Spaite, MD; Michael L. Callaham, MDDrs. Spaite and Callaham were the supervising editors on this article. Dr. Yealy did not participate in the editorial review or decision to publish this article.Author contributions: HEW conceived the study. HEW, RJF, MNS, and DMY designed the study. HEW, RJF, and MNS obtained funding. BNA oversaw the data collection process. HEW analyzed the data. HEW drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. HEW had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. HEW takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.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. The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest. The funders had no direct role in the design or execution of the study or the composition of the resulting manuscript. McNeil and Company, Inc. did review, provide suggestions for, and approve of the article. This study was supported by grants from the Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation and the Rochester Ronald McDonald Children's Charity. Dr. Wang is supported by Clinical Scientist Development Award K08-HS013628 from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Dr. Shah is supported by Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award K23-AG02898942 from the National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Fairbanks is supported by the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Research Fellowship Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation.Publication dates: Available online April 14, 2008.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(08)00494-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.02.011

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 3 , Pages 256-262, September 2008

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