Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 2 , Pages 133-141 , February 2010

US Emergency Department Performance on Wait Time and Length of Visit

  • Leora I. Horwitz, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
    • Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Leora I. Horwitz, MD, MHS, Section of General Internal Medicine, P.O. Box 208093, New Haven, CT 06520-8093; 203-688-5678, fax 203-737-3306
    • ,
  • Jeremy Green, BA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
    • ,
  • Elizabeth H. Bradley, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
    • Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Received 26 May 2009 ,Revised 10 July 2009 ,Accepted 22 July 2009.

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 Author contributions: LIH, JG, and EHB conceived and designed the study. LIH and JG obtained the data. LIH, JG, and EHB analyzed and interpreted the data. LIH drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. LIH and JG conducted the statistical analysis. LIH 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 publication was made possible by the Clinical and Translational Science Award grant UL1 RR024139 and KL2 RR024138 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the NCRR or NIH. Dr. Horwitz is supported by Yale-New Haven Hospital and by the NCRR. No funding source had any role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, and approval of the article.

 Publication date: Available online September 30, 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.07.023

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 2 , Pages 133-141 , February 2010

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