Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 233-240.e5, February 2009

Direct Paramedic Transport of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Centers: A Decision Analysis

Presented at the Society for Medical Decision Making annual meeting, October 2007, Pittsburgh, PA; and the National Association of EMS Physicians annual meeting, January 2008, Phoenix, AZ.

  • 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 Alabama at Birmingham, 619 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35249-7013; 205-975-7387
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  • Oscar C. Marroquin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Section of Decision Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Received 27 February 2008; received in revised form 13 June 2008; accepted 17 July 2008. published online 19 September 2008.

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 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. Wang is supported by Clinical Research Development Award K08-HS013628 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

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 Supervising editor: Kathy J. Rinnert, MD, MPH

 Author contributions: HEW conceived the study. HEW, OCM, and KJS designed the analysis. HEW carried out the analysis. All authors contributed substantially to the writing and editing of the article. HEW takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Publication date: Available online September 18, 2008.

PII: S0196-0644(08)01508-4

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.020

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 233-240.e5, February 2009

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