Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 727-735.e1 , June 2009

Randomized Trial of Computerized Quantitative Pretest Probability in Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients: Effect on Safety and Resource Use

Received 17 August 2008 ,Revised 16 September 2008 ,Accepted 26 September 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Deborah B. Diercks, MD

 Author contributions: JAK conceived the work, obtained funding, supervised the project, contributed to the primary analyses, and wrote the article. RZ and JH-N collected and entered data. RZ, JH-N, and AEJ enrolled patients, assisted with analysis, and helped draft the article. JAK 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. JAK is inventor on a patent application under review by the USPTO relevant to the computerized device used in this report.

 Publication date: Available online January 9, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(08)01861-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.09.034

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 727-735.e1 , June 2009

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