Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 769-778.e5 , December 2009

Predictors of 30-Day Serious Events in Older Patients With Syncope

Presented at the American Geriatric Society annual scientific meeting, May 2009, Chicago, IL; and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2009, New Orleans, LA.

  • Benjamin C. Sun, MD, MPP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
    • Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Benjamin Sun, MD, MPP, Office 3214A, Mail Stop 111, Building 500, Wing 3E, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 11301 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90073; 310-268-3002, fax 310-268-4818
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  • Stephen F. Derose, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente–Southern California, Pasadena, CA
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  • Li-Jung Liang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Gelareh Z. Gabayan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
    • Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Jerome R. Hoffman, MD, MA

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Alison A. Moore, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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  • William R. Mower, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
    • School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Received 22 May 2009 ,Revised 9 July 2009 ,Accepted 28 July 2009.

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 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. Dr. Sun is supported by a UCLA National Institute of Aging K12 award (K12AG001004) and an American Geriatrics Society Dennis Jahnigen Career Development Award (20051687). Drs. Mangione and Moore received support from the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research/Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (RCMAR/CHIME), funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (P30 AG021684), and from the UCLA/Drew Project EXPORT, funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (P20 MD000182). Dr. Sun received support from the UCLA Older Americans Independence Center, NIH/NIA Grant P30-AG028748, and the content does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Aging or the National Institutes of Health.

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 Supervising editor: Deborah B. Diercks, MD

 Author contributions: BCS, SFD, JRH, AAM, WRM, and CMM designed the study. BCS obtained funding for this study. BCS, SFD, and GG were responsible for data collection, and BCS supervised the overall data collection process. BCS and L-JL performed the data analysis. BCS drafted the article. All authors contributed substantially to article revisions. BCS takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Publication date: Available online September 19, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01387-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.07.027

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 769-778.e5 , December 2009

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