Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 5 , Pages 587-593, May 2009

Comparisons of High Versus Low Emergency Department Utilizers in Sickle Cell Disease

  • Imoigele P. Aisiku, MD, MSCR

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering Shock Center (VCURES), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Imoigele P. Aisiku, MD, MSCR, Virginia Commonwealth University, Departments of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine, VCU Reanimation Engineering Shock Center (VCURES), Box 980401, Richmond, VA 23298; 804-828-6938, fax 804-828-4862
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  • Wally R. Smith, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Quality Health Care, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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  • Donna K. McClish, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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  • James L. Levenson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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  • Lynne T. Penberthy, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Quality Health Care, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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  • Susan D. Roseff, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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  • Viktor E. Bovbjerg, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
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  • John D. Roberts, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Received 7 March 2008; received in revised form 7 June 2008 and 12 July 2008; accepted 30 July 2008. published online 17 October 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH

 Author contributions: All authors helped conceive the study, design the trial, and supervise conduct of trial data collection. WRS obtained funding. All authors contributed to study subject recruitment supervision. IPA drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to the article. IPA is the guarantor of the article. IPA 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. This research was funded by an NIH grant: Pain in Sickle Cell Epidemiology Study 1R01HL064122-01.

 Publication dates: Available online October 16, 2008.

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PII: S0196-0644(08)01635-1

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.050

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