Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 2 , Pages 142-160.e1 , February 2010

Optimizing Emergency Department Front-End Operations

  • Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Campus Box 8072, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110; 314-747-9949, 716-390-1288, or 314-256-9202, fax 314-362-0419
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  • Christopher Gentle, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, DE
    • ,
  • James M. Halfpenny, DO

      Affiliations

    • Forrest Hills Hospital, Forrest Hills, NY
    • ,
  • Alan Heins, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of South Alabama College of Medicine and Medical Center, Mobile, AL
    • ,
  • Abhi Mehrotra, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    • ,
  • Michael G. Mikhail, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI
    • ,
  • Diana Fite, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX

Received 28 July 2008 ,Revised 4 May 2009 ,Accepted 12 May 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Theodore R. Delbridge, MD, MPH

 Author contributions: JW conceived the project, designed the outline, supervised data collection, and was subcommittee chair. DF was EM Practice committee chair. AH, MM, JH, CG, AM and JW drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed to its revision. JW 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. 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 June 25, 2009.

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PII: S0196-0644(09)00531-9

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.05.021

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 2 , Pages 142-160.e1 , February 2010

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