Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography for Rapid Discharge of Low-Risk Patients With Potential Acute Coronary Syndromes

 Supervising editors: Deborah B. Diercks, MD; Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Dr. Diercks and Dr. Yealy were the supervising editors on this article. Dr. Hollander did not participate in the editorial review or decision to publish this article.

 Author contributions: JEH was responsible for overall study principal investigator. JEH collated comments from other authors, prepared the final article, and takes overall responsibility for the data. JEH had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. JEH, AMC, CMM, WGB, and HIL were responsible for data collection. JEH, AMC, FSS, CMM, WGB, and HIL were responsible for analysis and interpretation of the data. JEH, FSS, CMM, and WGB were responsible for study design. JEH, AMC, FSS, and HIL wrote sections of the article. ACC, FSS, CMM, WGB, and HIL critically reviewed the article. FSS was the overall statistician for the project. HIL oversaw the radiology component of project. JEH 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. Drs. Hollander, Chang, and Litt have received research funding from Siemens Medical Solutions. Dr. Litt has received an equipment grant (for cardiac CT processing research workstation not used in the study) and honoraria from Siemens Medical Solutions for speaking and for serving on the corporate advisory board for cardiac CT and MR. Dr. Litt has also served as a consultant for Medrad about contrast injector technology for cardiac CT (unrelated to this project). Dr. Hollander has been invited to attend an advisory board for Siemens Medical Solutions.

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 Publication dates: Available online November 8, 2008.

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PII: S0196-0644(08)01789-7

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.09.025

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