Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 767-776.e3 , June 2009

The Effect of Hospital Bed Occupancy on Throughput in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Presented as a poster at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, May 2008, Honolulu, HI.

Received 4 June 2008 ,Revised 14 November 2008 ,Accepted 25 November 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Steven M. Green, MD.

 Author contributions: DFH, GJP, MWS, and AMS conceived and designed the study. DFH, GJP, and AMS acquired the data. GJP conducted the statistical analysis of the data. DFH, GJP, MWS, and AMS performed overall analysis and interpretation of data. MWS and AMS provided study supervision. DFH drafted the article, and all authors reviewed and supported it. All authors take 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. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Publication date: Available online February 28, 2009.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(08)02066-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.11.024

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 767-776.e3 , June 2009

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