Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 3 , Pages 321-328 , March 2009

A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Central Laboratory and Point-of-Care Cardiac Marker Testing Strategies: The Disposition Impacted by Serial Point of Care Markers in Acute Coronary Syndromes (DISPO-ACS) Trial

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

  • Richard J. Ryan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Richard J. Ryan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267; 513-558-8104, fax 513-558-5791
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  • Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
    • ,
  • Judd E. Hollander, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Brian O'Neil, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
    • ,
  • Raymond Jackson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
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  • Donald Schreiber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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  • Robert Christenson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
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  • W. Brian Gibler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Received 26 February 2008 ,Revised 29 May 2008 ,Accepted 24 June 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Dr. Yealy was the supervising editor on this article. Dr. Hollander did not participate in the editorial review or decision to publish this article.

 Author contributions: All authors contributed to the conception and design of this study. WBG was responsible for obtaining funding. Data were collected by RJR, JEH, BO, RJ, and DS. CJL was responsible for data management and analysis. All authors were involved in the interpretation of the data. RJR and CJL drafted the article, and all authors provided critical feedback. RJR takes responsibility for the paper as 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. This study was funded in part by i-STAT/Abbott POC. The funding agency had no control over the study design, data collection, data analysis or interpretation and presentation of results. CJL and RJR have received research grants from Abbott POC.

 Publication dates: Available online August 8, 2008.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(08)01457-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.06.464

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 3 , Pages 321-328 , March 2009

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